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AsiaInfo Technologies (亚信科技), a Chinese IT services and software company with deep roots in the telecommunications sector, has extended its platform capabilities into the digital human space primarily through its AISWare HyperView product, which integrates 3D modeling, virtual digital human rendering, multi-user online interaction, and VR to support immersive metaverse-style deployments — with at least one documented case being a metaverse science and technology hall built for a provincial telecom operator. The company has also filed patents in the area, including CN117877509A covering a real-time digital human interaction method with synchronized voice and facial animation, suggesting active R&D investment rather than purely commercial integration. AsiaInfo's broader strategic framing positions digital humans as connectors between consumption and production scenarios, supply chains and sales channels, with the stated goal of enabling seamless human-machine, information-AI, and service-experience convergence for enterprise clients undergoing digital transformation. While AsiaInfo is not primarily known as a digital human company in the way that dedicated studios or avatar platforms are, its approach is characteristic of large Chinese enterprise IT vendors that embed digital human functionality as one layer within a wider stack of AI, 5G, digital twin, and metaverse-oriented services — with telecom and smart city verticals as the most visible deployment contexts.