We have been able to video chats from any PC for over a decade.
I wouldn't mind living in this world:
Just using work surrogates would save a whole ton of gas money for people, not to mention the lives of service men that could be saved. Using surrogates on farms could help with the aging farm population as well as reduce all number of industrial accidents...
They tried to make the Surrogate tech seem evil, but it is like any tech, it has advantages and disadvantages