It improvements in the next generation of VR (e.g., expression and iris tracking) could open up big improvements here, but the inherent latency of long-distance communication feels like a fundamental challenge comparing anything to in-person.
Yeah, they're providing a path-of-least-resistance for getting stuff done in your existing data environment.
A common challenge in a lot of organizations is IT as a roadblock to deployment of internal tools coming from data teams. Snowflake is answering this with Streamlit. You get an easy platform for data people to use and deploy on and it can all be done within the business firewall under data governance within Snowflake.