Forget drones, let a remote control person guide you round the Faroe Islands

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This is not a computer game but the islands’ latest tourism initiative – a camera-wearing local who responds to commands from people anywhere in the world to show them round their isles

At the press of a button on my mobile phone the camera swings left and a breathless voice explains that we are looking at Tíndholmur, a jagged sliver of rock in the sea channel off the Faroese village of Bøur. I can press a button to go left or right, and up or down. Rather cruelly, the on-screen controls also allow me to make the guide “run” and, bizarrely, “jump” on the spot.

 

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.charltonbrooker was this you?

How long can it possibly be until people are trying to get him to walk over a cliff?

Interesting. Can I stop the RC “person” from clubbing a whale?

well that's not dehumanising at all

Thanks but no, thanks. I'd rather have freedom.

Grazie, ma preferirei la libertà.

Kinda fucked up

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