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My team have been developing Remotely (https://meetings.remotelyhq.com/) with this very thing in mind - customizable avatars, voice-driven animation and expressions, animated emoticons, cinematic rooms, interactibles. It's still very early stages, but the main observation is that the scope of problems people are having with communication is too large. Some people want to feel less anxious in meetings, some want accountability, some productivity, some want "fun" and customize stuff, others want video, screensharing etc. It's hard to pinpoint "the problem" that's tangible and solvable outside of the base must-have features. "feeling more like part of the team while working remotely" is not an easy problem to tackle.