'Portals' Connect Two European Cities

'Portals' Connect Two European Cities
Two cities in Europe have been connected by large, round "portals" that may look like something out of a video game or movie, but allow people in each city to see those in the other.
One portal is outside Vilnius railway station in Lithuania. The other is in Litewski Square in Lublin, Poland, almost 500 kilometers away.
Each portal is about twice as tall as a person. You can't step through them, but they have cameras and large screens connected to the internet, allowing you to see a live video of the other side.
The portals were the idea of Lithuania's Benediktas Gylys Foundation, which works to promote science, creativity, new businesses and understanding between people. The foundation worked with Vilnius Gediminas Technical University to create the portals.
Foundation President Benediktas Gylys says that the portals are a "bridge" that will help bring people together, inviting us to forget our differences.
A similar message can be found on the portal website, which says, "It is so easy to believe we are each a wave and forget we are also the ocean." It goes on to encourage people around the world to stop dividing
themselves into "us" and "them", and start to think of themselves as a single group.
The team hopes to connect more cities in the future, including London, England, and Reykjavik, Iceland. It says that as more cities get portals over the next 10 years, different parts of the world will no longer seem to be separate.。