[Oni]

From what the article was saying, it's only their own character or the Oreimo character Ayase Aragaki. I can't see why they wouldn't be able to expand that in future, though.

How cool would it be if you could have like your game character in one of those?

If they allowed a different type of character or allow you to insert your own characters to make your very own customizable hologram assistant then It would probably be worth the price for me.

In fairness, it is a lot of money for something you can't customize. Might as well get Alexa or something instead.

I'd definitely bite if there was customization, but very few people are going to spend $1k for just one character model.