It's sort of pointless if you have to just watch it in a video like I assume we all are. I think it would be better if you were in there in the room with John (using a VR headset). Personally I'm listening to it in the background from another tab.
Yea, I actually found the avatar in the video was worse than just audio. It was just enough motion to distract my eye, while being pretty valueless in terms of communicating anything.
I ended up listening in the background, but opened up a new blank tab to hide the motion.