in order for this to be more effective than just an audio call, you need to convey a lot of expressivity. Animoji-style mapping faces to avatars could be powerful, and so could VR-style head and hand posing.
What's tricky is those two methods are (using today's technology!) mutually exclusive — there's no way good way to transmit facial expression when you're wearing a VR headset, and you'll also feel rather silly waving around hand controllers if you're not wearing a HMD.
in order for this to be more effective than just an audio call, you need to convey a lot of expressivity. Animoji-style mapping faces to avatars could be powerful, and so could VR-style head and hand posing.
What's tricky is those two methods are (using today's technology!) mutually exclusive — there's no way good way to transmit facial expression when you're wearing a VR headset, and you'll also feel rather silly waving around hand controllers if you're not wearing a HMD.
Yeah, I think that is definitely the key, and if it's not basically perfect you're in the uncanny valley of never good enough.