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Window Swap – A Site That Lets You Experience the Views From Total Strangers’ Windows
Oddity Central ^ | 07/20/2020

Posted on 07/21/2020 12:00:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Window Swap is an easy and ingenious way to travel all around the world, from the comfort of your own home. All you have to do is visit the Window Swap website and click on the “Open a new window somewhere in the world” button to instantly be transported in a stranger’s home in cities like London, Bangalore or Jakarta from the windows of whom you can admire the views they wake up to every day.

According to a description on its official website, Window Swap “is here to fill that deep void in our wanderlust hearts by allowing us to look through someone else’s window, somewhere in the world, for a while.

Apart from admiring views from over 15 cities around the world, visitor are encouraged to add their own windows and views to the pool. Uploaded videos have to be around 10 minutes long, be shot in HD and horizontally, and feature the uploader’s first name and location for credits.

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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bangalore; jakarta; london; windowswap
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1 posted on 07/21/2020 12:00:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

yep


2 posted on 07/21/2020 12:01:06 PM PDT by knarf
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To: BenLurkin

As long as it’s not bathroom swap!!

And what are we, cats now???


3 posted on 07/21/2020 12:01:45 PM PDT by dp0622 (Trump!!)
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To: BenLurkin

Can I look at Japan?


4 posted on 07/21/2020 12:06:14 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: BenLurkin

What? No Benghazi? :^)

If participants included Aegean islands or the Amalfi coast of Italy, hey, I’d be using this right now.


5 posted on 07/21/2020 12:06:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin

Click on a road in GoogleEarth and you can “drive” down a road in many participating countries. A lot cheaper than traveling and no airport searches.


6 posted on 07/21/2020 12:07:13 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: BenLurkin

So, random? That’s okay, but there should be a way to select a city, otherwise this kinda sucks. May as well just save the Bing desktop image every day into the random wallpaper folder.


7 posted on 07/21/2020 12:09:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin

“London, Bangalore or Jakarta”

Just like looking at a sewage dump. Thanks, but I’ll pass.


8 posted on 07/21/2020 12:11:02 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: BenLurkin

If Jeff Jeffries were wheelchair bound today, he would have never learned about the murder across from his own apartment. Though he might have witnessed one in Marseilles or Mumbai.


9 posted on 07/21/2020 12:21:18 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: wastedyears

I got one that was in Japan. Not bad.

I don’t think these are live.
I just saw one that was Sao Poulo Brazil and it was late dusk, almost night. Should have been roughly 4pm there. Then I got one in Ukraine which was broad daylight. Not right.


10 posted on 07/21/2020 12:22:10 PM PDT by z3n
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To: Dr. Sivana

Of course, you have to wonder about a man who spent all his time looking out his window when an attentive Grace Kelly is in the room with you.


11 posted on 07/21/2020 12:22:12 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: BenLurkin

"I got Baghdad."

12 posted on 07/21/2020 12:27:15 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: ClearCase_guy
There was one night I really liked the view out the Baghdad window...


13 posted on 07/21/2020 12:32:11 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: BenLurkin
I recently got a fairly nice 4K TV and bluray player.Today youtube has a number of amazing 4K videos from African wildlife parks and various Italian cities/regions that are just breathtaking when seen on my new TV.I see videos like this as being superior to anything like this.

But others may certainly disagree.

14 posted on 07/21/2020 1:09:50 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: BenLurkin

For some reason I get a black screen with Safari, but Firefox shows it fine.


15 posted on 07/21/2020 1:32:08 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: BenLurkin

Out of curiosity, is there one for the Amsterdam red light district? STRICTLY out of curiosity, of course.


16 posted on 07/21/2020 4:44:43 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.)
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