A Meta designer has created an AI app that lets users generate fake vacation photos of themselves at destinations they’ve never visited.
The tool, called Endless Summer, was created by Laurent Del Rey, a product designer who recently joined Meta’s Superintelligence lab.
Using Google’s Gemini Nano-Banana image model, the app fabricates photo albums of users enjoying imaginary trips across the world, from lounging in Bali, wandering the streets of Paris, or posing on picturesque white-sand beaches.
Users can pay $3.99 for a set of 30 AI-generated vacation images, $17.99 for 150, or $34.99 for 300. The app even includes a “room service” mode that automatically sends two new fake travel photos to users each morning.
Del Rey described Endless Summer as “for when burnout hits and you need to manifest the soft life u deserve — with fake vacation pics of you.” Speaking to TechCrunch, he said the idea came from his own love of travel and the inaccessibility of real vacations for many workers facing rising costs and stagnating wages.
“As the [summer season ends, I wanted to make something that felt like that,” he said. “It’s from that feeling that I reverse-engineered the product experience.”
The project has sparked debate online, with critics calling it a symptom of a worsening divide between reality and digital illusion.
