Yes, the $199 gadget is affordable and even adorable. The bright red finish, palm size, and rabbit avatar icon are all cute and more engaging than they have a right to be.

Zoom’s new Avatars feature will let you use a virtual animal to stand in for yourself at meetings — it’ll mimic your facial expressions like a Memoji but could help with the Zoom fatigue.

At this time, Zoom Avatars only feature animal characters like a fox, cat, rabbit or raccoon, but the company suggests future updates will include a wider array of avatar options.

Tap Avatars. Now, you get to choose which animal you want to be. You can pick from a cat, dog, fox, rabbit, polar bear, panda, grizzly bear, raccoon, wolf, brown cow, or black-and-white cow.

These avatars are intended to give the Zoom fatigued among us a way to communicate body language and facial expressions without actually appearing on camera. On the flip side, imagine you’re a ...

Basically, it’s like Apple’s memoji, but instead of the AR effect being limited to your face, Zoom avatars give you new clothing as well. The feature is currently limited to 22 variations of cat, dog, ...