Portals are large-scale, always-on video installations placed in public spaces, town squares, waterfronts, cultural landmarks that create a permanent live visual connection between cities, countries, and communities. Unlike corporate video tools designed for meetings and workflows, Portals exist purely for human encounter: to let strangers on opposite sides of the world see each other, wave, dance, hold up signs, and share a moment in real time. They connect people using the only universal language known to all of humanity, body language, deliberately offering a purely visual livestream on the basis that adding more features takes away from the essential experience. The idea is not a technology product but a civic one: that proximity, even simulated, changes how people feel about each other.