Most of the work we are doing now focuses on skilled content creation or on human-machine interface, like interacting with a virtual assisant [Hao Li gave an example interacting with a digitized version of his wife for a Virtual Beings summit.
The same technologies that make virtual beings more realistic can be used also to improve virtual communication, thanks to technologies that allow to digitize faces with all expressions and transfer them to the virtual world, like with Animojis.