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Explore the world from the comfort of your own home. ๐Ÿ
Paul McBurney Jr
Virtual Window by VirtualVacation โ€” Experience window views from around the globe ๐ŸŒŽ
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Virtual Window by VirtualVacation is a webapp that lets you experience views from windows around the globe. Window viewing is an everyday occurrence. Whether that be from the office, or your house, Virtual Window lets you expand your reach on the world. โœจ๐ŸŒŽ
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Calum Webb
Hey @yesterdaytoday , congrats on the launch! So cool to see this launch on Product Hunt, I only just discovered CityGuessr the other week and it's become our go-to casual game to play as a group! Always so fascinating all the little details you can get when you look closely enough. We've all been wondering where you sourced the footage from and assumed that it was mostly from virtual tours, online webcams etc. - really cool to learn that it's sourced from the community. Regarding Virtual Window, do you have any plans to add more city- or interior 'windows'? Imagine this could be quite cool for the ambient sound and atmosphere of a cafรฉ or inner city. Also are there any plans to offer resolution settings to configure the stream to be a higher or lower quality depending on internet connectivity/ display resolution?
Paul McBurney Jr
@calum Hey Calum. Thanks for the congratulations. Yep your right. Your idea to add cafe atmospheres, and a variety of different places is truly a great one. I have not yet considered it, but I'm sure it will be coming soon.
Saba Karim
Is there an easy way to get this playing on my Samsung TV?
raymond dunthorne
Love it. It works great. Having been stuck indoors working from home for what seems like the past ten years, me and madame have become mildly obsessed with travel / interesting places abroad webcams. You know the score, you discover one on the youtube that's a good view of a fascinating little square in the middle of Germany, but half of the time you log on, it's offline or the view has changed to something that rules out the charm you initially saw (I'm talking about YOU, Einbeck Market Square) The QA on most of the 'webcam sites' is non-existent too. That certainly does NOT seem to be the case here. Wicked! Actually I've just realised they're not live so NOW I HATE IT.
Caique Pereira
Loved it @yesterdaytoday . I've been looking at many different windows for the past hour. It would be great to have a way to share a specific window with people through its URL.
Paul McBurney Jr
@ccpdev Great idea. Thanks for sharing!
Paul McBurney Jr
Hey Hunters! ๐Ÿ‘‹ Paul here. I started Virtual Vacation about a year ago. Since then, we've been creating webapps that let you better experience the world. From the Southern Coast of South Africa ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ, to the North of Alaska. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Looking out of windows takes out a big portion of our day, typically in our home, office space, etc. Virtual Window lets you escape from these locations and see window views from places all around the world, just like this one below. โœ… If you don't want to manually select your window, you can also view random ones. ๐Ÿคท ๐Ÿ™ All in all, I'm thrilled to share this little thing with the ProductHunt community and hope you can find some use out of it. Maybe leave it on while you work, or broadcast it on your TV. โœ… If you enjoyed the concept, feel free to navigate to the homepage where we have a lot of other neat webapps like this, and an interactive game. ๐ŸŽฎ Edit: If you want to submit footage feel free to contact me at contactvirtualvacation@gmail.com for questions and footage submissions. I truly appreciate anyone who takes the time to film one of these videos and share their recording with the world.
Guy Taylor
@yesterdaytoday Very cool! Is this live footage? If no, what is the delay?
William
All in all, I'm thrilled to share this little thing with the ProductHunt community and hope you can find some use out of it. Maybe leave it on while you work, or broadcast it on your TV. walgreenslistens.com