that's a great idea! let's call it something simple, like just "Hangouts"

Then to solve adoption, let's make it a website so people can visit it without installing anything!

And maybe if it could be spearheaded by a large company like Google, that'd be even better!

Personally I'd love a service where I could drop in and out of one of these "Google Hangouts" throughout the day, maybe even made accessible by removing the complexity of VR, seeing my friends' cameras would be good enough for me :)