Confirmed: We Are Living in a Simulation
You ever look around and think: “None of this is real”? Like the algorithm’s playing dress-up as your best friend, or your job is a side quest. Welcome to Egocentric World Simulator Player One — the bizarrely accurate, wildly unhinged digital mirror that’s blowing up across corners of X and Reddit. Part performance art, part psychological experiment — Egocentric World Simulator Player One (EWSP1) uses generative ai to frame your entire existence as a simulation coded around you - all based on a single POV photo. You are the main character.
You can read the project GitHub page here: https://playerone-hku.github.io/
Let’s Talk Tech: The Sim Is Realer Than You Think
If EWSP1 started as a meme, it’s now mutating into something more tangible. There’s early-stage software in the wild — and it’s weirdly good. Built with open-source spatial design engines, modular AI companions, and personal narrative generators, the tech behind EWSP1 feels like someone reverse-engineered your subconscious and turned it into an OS.
Built on Unreal Engine or Unity forks for creating dreamlike, ego-reactive environments
LLMs trained on your own inputs (text, search, mood) to generate personalized “NPC” feedback
AR overlays that turn real-world locations into simulation layers (think Pokémon GO but for existential crises)
Onchain data feeds for anchoring your simulated world to the cryptoverse — prices, airdrops, social signals, even memecoin narratives are becoming input variables
There’s no official dev team — yet. But multiple indie hackers, lore builders, and AI artists are prototyping EWSP1-inspired “consciousness engines” on GitHub, Farcaster, and Lens. The EWSP1 concept hits because it feels true.
