Super cool! I would love to see a ring of these leading to all different countries. Really interesting way to connect countries together.
SecretNYC (and all their secret sub brands, one per major city) always sussed me out a bit. They seem to just be blogs about events, but they also host their own, very templated events, like the Van Gogh immersive exhibits and the Candlelight Concerts (among others). They do this in every city and advertise the fuck out of them, which makes them seem more hollow when you see the scale of their enterprise from a 300ft view...
This is great. We should have many more of these. I am always surprised how different cities in other countries are when you travel there vs. what you see in the media. I really think this can bring people together.
Does it do audio too?
I wonder what the resolution and frame rate is too?
Article was lacking technical detail.
Needs gesture recognition to trigger Stargate portal easter egg, https://youtube.com/watch?v=0WvN3Ji-xIQ
Locations: https://www.portals.org/portals
Why are none of the photos actually of Flatiron?
(I don't know Dublin well enough to tell if any of them are of the Dublin side.)
An artist set something similar up between NYC and London in 2008 — was always fun to walk by.
Reminds me of the Shared Studios containers, except those have audio [1]. Funnily enough, that also started as a project called Portal (between New York and Tehran) [2].
What we really need is to have people on both sides of the pond dress up as green men from outer space and wave to each other with three webbed digits.
I wonder when we'll have light field capturing and emitting surfaces that would make it look like a real hole between places...
With support from the Simons Foundation: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/08/announcing-porta...
Cool stuff. It's kind of interesting because the time zones are several hours off, so I wonder how well it works at night. From the renders I see the quality doesn't seem that great (for better or worse), still quite fascinating to look through I'm sure.
I walk by this location regularly. VERY open to goofy ideas and harmless shenanigans.
Awesome! There’s a really cool company in Japan doing something similar for enterprise: https://tonari.no/en
I wonder what the latency is going to be on this. It needs to be at least 1/30th of a second round trip but I suspect the actual latency is going to be more like 1s+
I wonder how long it will be before we realize we can't have nice things.
In the meantime, this seems cool!
is Dublin becoming more of a cultural center since Brexit?
there are portals ...
I hope this helps manifest a real portal but yeah JetBlue may disagree (i.e. unmanifest)
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Is Facebook going to complain about trademarks?
This is neat, I hope one day similar structures are placed in cities around the globe, and it helps ease tension that builds so easily online.