Skype Bots - Visual Cards or HTML responses - bots

I've started looking into developing Skype Bots and I'm a bit confused on how my bot can respond with something other than plain text. I watched a video on How to build a bot for Skype from the Build 2016 conference and they mentioned something about Visual Cards. Basically a visual card seems to be a clickable image with text and/or a carousel of clickable images. Anyways... I basically want to send the user something nice and pretty that they can click to obtain more information. Thank you for any direction you can give.

Supported capabilities in Skype are shown at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/bots/docs. These do not currently include rich cards but hopefully something that isn't too far away.

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