So much cool work bringing realism to Gaussian sources I think avatar mediated collaboration will get across the uncanny valley so where you are and how well you can communicate are not related anymore.

Also if you like Degas, this is another state of the art project in progress called VR-GS: A Physical Dynamics-Aware Interactive Gaussian Splatting System in Virtual Reality

https://yingjiang96.github.io/VR-GS/