Hugging Booth is an AI hug video generator: upload a photo of each person and it creates a short video of them hugging. The embrace is generated from the two pictures, so nobody needs to be in the same place, or even the same decade of photos.

Some people make them as jokes for the group chat. Most don't. The clips that get shared are a kid hugging a grandparent two flights away, army homecomings that haven't happened yet, and hugs with people we can only reach through old photos now. It takes seconds, and it hits harder than you expect.