While parts of the world slowly reopen and day-to-day activities start to resume, foreign travel is still widely restricted. But you can get a delightful reminder of the world outside your door—er, window—with this new website.
Window-swap is a little site with one purpose: to “open a new window somewhere in the world.” It’s quarantine’s Chatroulette—and an infinitely more picturesque version at that.
The project started when Sonali Ranjit and her husband Vaishnav Balasubramaniam, who are both directors at major creative agencies in Singapore, were bored with being stuck at home and only seeing the view from their own window. So they created a site where you can see someone else’s view instead and “feel a little bit better till we can (responsibly) explore our beautiful planet again,” Ranjit wrote on Bored Panda.
Arriving at your virtual Airbnb is easy to navigate. Click on the button at the center of the main page to be swept away to footage from another user’s window—wherever that may be—and let the mental getaway begin. Want a change of scenery? Simply click again to be whisked off to your next destination.