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This just doesn't strike me as "professional" whatever that means. I'm supposed to talk to an avatar of my co-worker when I can already just have a video call with them?

I don't see what problem this is solving.

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I think positional audio is a big one, so is the sense of presence and shared space VR brings. I don't think this has any chance of taking off before these headset include eye and face tracking so those cartoon avatars can have realistic human expressions.

Not only they need to be realistic, they need to be accurate and real-time.

If I see a colleague confused during a presentation, I can adjust my delivery. I can’t do the same unless the avatar communicates that to me in no uncertain terms.

A potential advantage for latency is having every participant on the same known set of hardware that can be optimized for low latency. Though the Quest 2 has high latency, it would be plausible to make a low latency headset and have every participant on that hardware for the best experience.

whiteboarding!

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