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Let’s have a staring contestStranger Video pairs you with a staring partner via webcam
Stranger Video pairs you with a staring partner via webcam
Image credit:Nintendo
Image credit:Nintendo
Stranger Videois a website that wants access to your webcam. Grant it and it will show you a close-up of your own face, the background around you cropped out. Close your eyes to tell it you’re ready, and open them again when you hear a chime. It’ll now connect you to a stranger doing the same thing: first person to blink loses.Youcan play it here.I’m playing itright nowand no one else in the world is. Let’s all of us play it together.Stranger Video is work of Eieio, who makes “stuff for the 2000s internet.” It has that old school, lofi, ’00s vibe, as if a leftover from the personal web. It’s also from the same creator asOne Million Checkboxes, which Edwin wrote about back in June.Both of these are nominees inthe Tiny Awards, which aims to celebrate “the other web, the one that is small and handmade and isn’t trying to sell you anything or monetise anything but which instead is about people using the digital tools we all have access to to make the sorts of small, personal experiences that you tend not to see ‘in feed’.” It’s a trove of beautiful websites.Anyway. Put yourstaring eyeswhere your mouth is, RPS readers.
Stranger Videois a website that wants access to your webcam. Grant it and it will show you a close-up of your own face, the background around you cropped out. Close your eyes to tell it you’re ready, and open them again when you hear a chime. It’ll now connect you to a stranger doing the same thing: first person to blink loses.Youcan play it here.I’m playing itright nowand no one else in the world is. Let’s all of us play it together.Stranger Video is work of Eieio, who makes “stuff for the 2000s internet.” It has that old school, lofi, ’00s vibe, as if a leftover from the personal web. It’s also from the same creator asOne Million Checkboxes, which Edwin wrote about back in June.Both of these are nominees inthe Tiny Awards, which aims to celebrate “the other web, the one that is small and handmade and isn’t trying to sell you anything or monetise anything but which instead is about people using the digital tools we all have access to to make the sorts of small, personal experiences that you tend not to see ‘in feed’.” It’s a trove of beautiful websites.Anyway. Put yourstaring eyeswhere your mouth is, RPS readers.
Stranger Videois a website that wants access to your webcam. Grant it and it will show you a close-up of your own face, the background around you cropped out. Close your eyes to tell it you’re ready, and open them again when you hear a chime. It’ll now connect you to a stranger doing the same thing: first person to blink loses.
Youcan play it here.
I’m playing itright nowand no one else in the world is. Let’s all of us play it together.
Stranger Video is work of Eieio, who makes “stuff for the 2000s internet.” It has that old school, lofi, ’00s vibe, as if a leftover from the personal web. It’s also from the same creator asOne Million Checkboxes, which Edwin wrote about back in June.
Both of these are nominees inthe Tiny Awards, which aims to celebrate “the other web, the one that is small and handmade and isn’t trying to sell you anything or monetise anything but which instead is about people using the digital tools we all have access to to make the sorts of small, personal experiences that you tend not to see ‘in feed’.” It’s a trove of beautiful websites.
Anyway. Put yourstaring eyeswhere your mouth is, RPS readers.
