I have a question for you both: where are the other passengers?
I've never seen such empty flights/trains in my life.
gambiting 1 hours ago [-]
Ha, I have. I was on the very first flight Jet2 airline ran after COVID lockdowns, and there were a grand total of 9 people on board of this Boeing 737 - it was surreal to say the least.
iLemming 13 hours ago [-]
Come on, someone make a walking simulator already.
You don't need a simulator I think these are the best walking videos on the internet.
PaulRobinson 2 hours ago [-]
This is mildly disconcerting in a nuanced way and I can't figure out if there's a joke I'm meant to be in on.
This is 4K uncut, AI-free video, presumably taken by the channel owner on a camera on a gimbal, walking around Tokyo/Japan.
Except in the live chat on one of them, he talks about magic, and they refer to him as a wizard, and he warns "in a minute, the magic makes a cyclist turn into a car", and sure enough about 30 seconds later a cyclist "changes" into a car. Another video opens with a scene that looks CGI for a moment, then doesn't.
I'm presuming this is all real video with some post-production edits to make it "feel" uncut, and then streamed as "live". Is that right?
Beautiful video, I'm curious about the production as I'm tempted to do something similar but around London and walking locations in England - I'm a keen walker and been thinking about making videos for a while.
chacha102 9 hours ago [-]
I got a very realistic one a while ago. It automatically activates when I open my front door. Very high resolution, multiplayer game play needs improvement.
Also given your name it's funny because the Lemmings game is also essentially a walking simulator.
esafak 8 hours ago [-]
Google Street View.
12 hours ago [-]
uean 13 hours ago [-]
There's something very analogue about this site. Relaxing in a way. Thanks for this.
(slight improvement for weather effects - they don't always move in the direction of the train)
buzer 9 hours ago [-]
I don't really get Finland. It says Finland–Helsinki Airport, but the stops say Lempäälä and Toijala. Those are about 150km from Helsinki Airport and there is no direct train between them (Lempäälä/Toijala and Helsinki Airport).
adammarples 2 hours ago [-]
It seems to be just random footage spliced together, constantly skipping location
huhtenberg 2 hours ago [-]
> Videos aren't playing here. Something may be blocking YouTube — try reloading.
wannabe44 3 hours ago [-]
I thought Railpass must be be a new vulnerability in Rails.
keyle 11 hours ago [-]
Amusing but I would rather have the seat facing the right way or even better, no cheesy frame/seats; just the footage and audio.
motionlessveloc 10 hours ago [-]
The videos are picked off YouTube and run in random directions, left or right.
I agree it's annoying there's no way to toggle the orientation of the chairs though, especially since clicking random 6 times got me 5 videos in the "wrong" direction and only one the right away around.
amiga386 11 hours ago [-]
Click the "footage by" link in the bottom corner, the page is just embedding a YouTube video.
dark-star 13 hours ago [-]
How can I select a specific line in a country? I keep getting new (random) lines when I click on the same country again, is there any way to actually choose a specific line?
fluxusars 9 hours ago [-]
Not sure if this was AI coded but it seems to grind my browser tab to a halt. Could do with (spending some tokens on) optimization.
vinaigrette 12 hours ago [-]
This is great, heard somebody get fined on a line I took once in France. Just hits the spot!
jareklupinski 13 hours ago [-]
Poland's train is moving backwards; can we get an option to turn the seats around :)
jacquesm 12 hours ago [-]
People that are completely unaware are recognizably in view. Not cool.
amiga386 11 hours ago [-]
Are they in public? Then that's on them.
As an example, UK law: you can legally photograph/video anyone in a public place, without their consent. Limitations to this exist, e.g. if the person feels they're being stalked or harassed, they can complain, and you could be arrested for breach of the peace.
buzer 9 hours ago [-]
Generally speaking it's illegal in EU due to GDPR. The major issue is Article 13. When you obtain personal data directly from data subject (which is what would happen when you record video) you need to give them the information that Article 13 requires.
Basically the only exceptions to this come from Article 23 (which is unlikely to apply) and Article 85. Article 85 covers "journalistic purposes or the purpose of academic artistic or literary expression", but it requires separate law in Member State and these then set out the requirements what actually qualifies under it. The standards for that tend to be much stricter than US' First Amendment (which allows essentially anyone to say that they are press).
amiga386 23 minutes ago [-]
This is not the case at all!
GDPR Article 2(2)c "This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data: by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity". If you're photographing/videoing for yourself (non-commercial), an exception for you already exists. You don't need to become a data controller for all the incidental people in your holiday videos.
But if you upload the video to YouTube... Google is the data controller, and billions of unnamed, unknown individuals are its data subjects. Courts have ruled that even if you post on social media and you're restricting it to friends & family, that falls under the individual/household exception, but if it's viewable to all, GDPR applies.
Google doesn't need to discover who these people are. That would be bad in and of itself (Article 11: Processing which does not require identification)
But if a data subject does contact Google, and can confirm they are the specific person in a video, they can get their Article 13/14/15/16/17/18 rights... which are subject to the other exceptions you mention.
maxall4 11 hours ago [-]
What is illegal is not necessarily immoral, and what is legal is not necessarily moral.
lokar 10 hours ago [-]
I agree. It’s not hard to blur faces, so why not do it?
motionlessveloc 10 hours ago [-]
The videos are pulled from footage published to YouTube by randoms.
markcerqueira 13 hours ago [-]
Wow - beautiful!
RIMR 15 hours ago [-]
Why are the stops in Germany, but the ticker sign says "somewhere near New York"?
ZeroDayDreamer 3 hours ago [-]
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dang 15 hours ago [-]
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I have to add, though: if you meant this as a joke, it's actually really funny! So it's a bit of a Shrödinger cat I suppose.
I've never seen such empty flights/trains in my life.
You don't need a simulator I think these are the best walking videos on the internet.
This is 4K uncut, AI-free video, presumably taken by the channel owner on a camera on a gimbal, walking around Tokyo/Japan.
Except in the live chat on one of them, he talks about magic, and they refer to him as a wizard, and he warns "in a minute, the magic makes a cyclist turn into a car", and sure enough about 30 seconds later a cyclist "changes" into a car. Another video opens with a scene that looks CGI for a moment, then doesn't.
I'm presuming this is all real video with some post-production edits to make it "feel" uncut, and then streamed as "live". Is that right?
Beautiful video, I'm curious about the production as I'm tempted to do something similar but around London and walking locations in England - I'm a keen walker and been thinking about making videos for a while.
Also given your name it's funny because the Lemmings game is also essentially a walking simulator.
I agree it's annoying there's no way to toggle the orientation of the chairs though, especially since clicking random 6 times got me 5 videos in the "wrong" direction and only one the right away around.
As an example, UK law: you can legally photograph/video anyone in a public place, without their consent. Limitations to this exist, e.g. if the person feels they're being stalked or harassed, they can complain, and you could be arrested for breach of the peace.
Basically the only exceptions to this come from Article 23 (which is unlikely to apply) and Article 85. Article 85 covers "journalistic purposes or the purpose of academic artistic or literary expression", but it requires separate law in Member State and these then set out the requirements what actually qualifies under it. The standards for that tend to be much stricter than US' First Amendment (which allows essentially anyone to say that they are press).
GDPR Article 2(2)c "This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data: by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity". If you're photographing/videoing for yourself (non-commercial), an exception for you already exists. You don't need to become a data controller for all the incidental people in your holiday videos.
But if you upload the video to YouTube... Google is the data controller, and billions of unnamed, unknown individuals are its data subjects. Courts have ruled that even if you post on social media and you're restricting it to friends & family, that falls under the individual/household exception, but if it's viewable to all, GDPR applies.
Google doesn't need to discover who these people are. That would be bad in and of itself (Article 11: Processing which does not require identification)
But if a data subject does contact Google, and can confirm they are the specific person in a video, they can get their Article 13/14/15/16/17/18 rights... which are subject to the other exceptions you mention.
I have to add, though: if you meant this as a joke, it's actually really funny! So it's a bit of a Shrödinger cat I suppose.