I would like to add to the first part of your comment that it seems lots of people don't understand how teams in a company work as well. You can't pull people off the HoloLens team and expect them to make huge leaps on the Skype team. If someone is in love with their HoloLens work, drive that forward, they might not be in love with Skype. Thus you have situations where new breakthroughs are hard to come by. I would think working on Skype is not nearly as exciting as HoloLens. #1 because I am sure Microsoft has to be insanely protective of the platform and not make large changes all at once. Not the case with HoloLens.
What you can do however is say to the hololens team that one of their priorities is to have a killer avatar based augmented reality video-conferencing app and that it's going to be one of the core drivers of the product so they better make sure it works and works well.
It doesn't need to be built on Skype (and preferably wouldn't), but they should be looking at that as a core market for the product.
A few months back I was talking to a friend, whose company was paying him to fly to the UK to host a week of training or something similar, and we calculated that the cost of flying and accommodating him for the week would have been equivalent to purchasing PCs and VR gear for all participants. Except of course there wasn't really any software up to the task of virtual conferencing.
