20 Day Stranger App for iOS Lets Two Strangers Experience Different Lives [VIDEO]

The new 20 Day Stranger App will let iPhone users from all over the world to share experiences with others by posting pictures and other details anonymously.

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology worked together with The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values to launch the iPhone app called 20 Day Stranger. Users from both ends can exchange different experiences, environments, and events while keeping anonymity for 20 days.

The app will use technologies from Google Maps, Instagram, and Foursquare to pick up all of the user's daily-life surrounding signals. For example, the app will send the user's partner a Google Streetview of the surrounding trees in the driveway, and pictures of the cars, people, or anything nearby. A user can see what the usual or daily cuisine the other half eats in Italy, or what the normal traffic situation is in Indonesia. The app lets the other person have a feel of someone's surroundings.

Each user's identity will be kept secret, but they will constantly share what they do and where they go everyday through the app. Users of the app won't be able to send direct messages or have access to personal information, according to 20 Day Stranger's details in its official website. Come the 20^th day, the app will let each user send one final message, which could be an exchange of information or just a plain farewell.

Director of MIT Media Lab's Playful System's research group Kevin Slavin said the app sends just enough evidence the user's life so that the other person can imagine it, according to Huffington Post. Slavin said that many people say things they don't normally say when they're perfectly anonymous. He continued that these people take unfair advantage of that fact. That is the reason the app's creators decided to remove direct messaging in the app save for the last day in the 20-day period.

20 Day Stranger is still in the trial stages, but the creators are looking forward to making the app available within two to three months. There are no updates yet if the app will also be available for Android users. iPhone users who are curious about the app can give it a trial run by signing up at 20DayStranger.com.