One of barriers to wide-spread adoption of Virtual Reality (well, beyond cost and computing power and complexity and…) is finding useful applications beyond gaming. Of course, anyone that has looked at a VR headset has probably thought how nice it would be to connect Skype to those somehow. Seems like Microsoft had the same idea, kind of. Fill a room with 3D cameras, connect to Hololens, and connect with 3-D virtual holograms of people that are far away. Microsoft’s Hololens is a different type of VR device that is also part augmented reality – it can combine virtual components with the real world around you as an augmented layer. It also currently costs thousands of dollars. So, yeah – this set up is not cheap. But someday we could see the eye tracking Fove combined with Microsoft Hololens and holoportation to take educational concepts like social presence, teacher presence, and immediacy to new levels. Of course, if most people are still ignoring those affective components in the future as they are now, newer cooler technology won’t change that.