Stranger Video is an internet site that desires entry to your webcam. Grant it and it’ll present you a close-up of your individual face, the background round you cropped out. Shut your eyes to inform it you are prepared, and open them once more while you hear a chime. It will now join you to a stranger doing the identical factor: first individual to blink loses.
You can play it here.
I am taking part in it proper now and nobody else on this planet is. Let’s all of us play it collectively.
Stranger Video is figure of Eieio, who makes “stuff for the 2000s web.” It has that old-fashioned, lofi, ’00s vibe, as if a leftover from the non-public net. It is also from the identical creator as One Million Checkboxes, which Edwin wrote about again in June.
Each of those are nominees in the Tiny Awards, which goals to rejoice “the opposite net, the one that’s small and handmade and isn’t attempting to promote you something or monetise something however which as an alternative is about folks utilizing the digital instruments all of us have entry to to make the types of small, private experiences that you simply have a tendency to not see ‘in feed’.” It is a trove of lovely web sites.
Anyway. Put your staring eyes the place your mouth is, RPS readers.
