(Editor’s note: Both Lenovo and Microsoft are clients of the author.)

Lenovo’s big Tech World ’22 took place this week and one of the most interesting segments is related to what Microsoft calls Holoportation. (Not surprisingly, he uses Hololens.) It also addressed one of the biggest problems with Meta’s metaverse implementation: realism.

Most people who have seen Meta’s version of the future of mixed reality meetings have found it… lacking. People aren’t really ready to partake in a new service that makes Linden Labs’ “Second Life” look good. (If Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wanted to recreate “Second Life,” he could have bought it for a fraction of what his development efforts have cost so far.)

Specifically, what Lenovo showed was a…