Gallery: A Picture-Sharing App That Lets You Experience the Life of a Total Stranger

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    Introducing Tworlds, an app from a Dutch designer that aims to answer the question: “Is there anyone else out there doing this exact same thing at this exact same moment?”
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    Tworlds offers a sizable handful of themes. Pick one, and snap a photo of whatever you're doing at that moment that pertains to the theme.
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    The app then pairs your moment with a moment from another user, from anywhere in the world.
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    A split-screen diptyque of a moment frozen in time appears on your screen. It feels a little like Snapchat, except it's not ephemeral. Pictures can be saved.
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    Unlike other photo-sharing apps, Tworlds doesn't let you use filters or editing to fix up the moments. It's meant to be a more pure distillation of that moment.
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    The best part of the Tworlds experience? an instant connection with someone halfway around the globe, maybe even from somewhere you’ve never heard of.
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