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Go Back
See your childhood street, old neighbourhood or somewhere meaningful again — live, on your terms.
A real person. Somewhere else. Live.
Be there,
from anywhere.
Hire a trusted local person to be your human avatar somewhere you can’t be. They go there in person. You decide where they go and what you want to see.
From NZ$69 for a private 30-minute live session.
LIVE · LEEDS
You · speaking live
“Turn left here — I want to see the old shops.”
You choose the route
Keep the recording
1-to-1Private live experience
You directNot a fixed tour
Local peopleCurated for reliability
No payment yetUntil a human avatar is confirmed
Where would you go?
Not a virtual tour.
A way to be somewhere else.
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Go Before
Look around before a trip, move or decision. Explore the streets that matter instead of relying on edited content.
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Go Explore
Choose somewhere fascinating and experience ordinary life there through someone who actually lives locally.
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Go Where I Can’t
Experience places distance, mobility, confidence or circumstance keep out of reach — without asking anyone to take unusual risks.
How it works
Simple enough to feel spontaneous.
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Tell us where
Give us a city, neighbourhood, route or specific place you want to experience.
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We find a suitable local
We match you with a capable human avatar who covers the area and is comfortable with the request.
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Book your time
Sessions are scheduled. You can add optional notes so your human avatar can find the right starting point.
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Take control
Watch live. Ask them to turn, stop, keep going or simply let you look. Interaction level is your choice.
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Keep the memory
Where available, your session recording can be kept after the experience.
Launch pricing
30 minutes from NZ$69
Long enough to explore; short enough to try something new. If both you and your human avatar are free, you may be able to extend during the session in 15-minute blocks.
Request a place
Where would you be, if distance wasn’t the problem?
We’re launching our first locations now. Tell us what you want to experience and we’ll see whether we can find a suitable local human avatar.
- No payment until we confirm a human avatar.
- Requests are subject to local availability and ordinary public access.
- No surveillance, unusual approaches to strangers, door-knocking or intentionally hazardous activity.
Have a question? Email hello@remotelypresent.com.
A few important boundaries
Ordinary presence by proxy.
Your human avatar is a real local person, not an investigator, courier or stunt performer.
Can I tell the human avatar where to go?
Yes. That’s the point. Within the agreed area and ordinary public access, you direct the route and can ask them to stop, turn, go back or simply keep quiet while you look.
Can the human avatar refuse a direction?
Yes. Human avatars retain autonomy over their own safety and can refuse or end any request they consider inappropriate, unsafe or outside the agreed session.
Can I ask them to watch a person or house?
The service is for experiencing places, not monitoring people. Targeted surveillance or waiting for a person’s movements is not permitted.
What if mobile signal is poor?
Live quality depends on local coverage. As the network grows, we plan to flag areas where connection quality has been unreliable.