Teleconferencing, Spatial style: Pop on a pair of AR glasses and beam into a shared virtual space as a 3D avatar to collaborate, chat and create. All images taken courtesy of Jinha Lee/Spatial.

Forget Skype, hang up on Hangouts. Beam your 3D avatar into AR space instead

Step into Spatial, a new 3D augmented-reality technology that promises to unleash remote collaboration from the screen and bring it into the room.

Imagine you’re in an office with colleagues, brainstorming about the next conference you’re…