It’s different from existing 3D social apps (AFAIK) because it enables people to build multiplayer virtual worlds, games, and characters with generative AI right from their browser (desktop, mobile, or VR), in nearly infinitely-extendable recursively tiled interconnected spaces, while allowing people to interact in a public commons or easily create a private channel to enjoy the same spaces with their chosen friends and community.
The brief backstory is I was running my personal “pelican benchmark” [1] on GPT-6 Astra, which when I ran on Gemini 3 Pro last November couldn’t even put heads on 3D models the right side up [2], and was astounded by the initial results. I gained inspiration for an art project and social experiment that was going to have nine interconnected, benevolent virtual worlds that people could explore and hang out in with AI characters, but by the time Opus 5.5 was released I was gaining so much momentum and having so many ideas and so much fun building I just kept building more and more with the constraint of minimizing MVP scope lifted by agentic coding. I let the project become an ever-evolving wishlist of capabilities for a more interesting social environment as I became increasingly fascinated with the prospect of embodying creative machine intelligence in 3D space with people, realizing that rather than just limiting to building the spaces and characters I imagined I might enable people to co-create endless spaces and characters in a shared world.
There’s so much to do still but I’m sharing now even if it feels a little too soon (this is the first public announcement of embodsi’s existence) because I think it’s better to build in the open so people might guide the development and help it evolve in a good direction as model capability improves at a jaw-dropping pace.
For people that have the budget to build I hope to see you in embodsi creating amazing things! And for everyone regardless of means (I’ve tried to keep as much free and accessible as financially feasible) I hope you meet amazing people, discover awesome spaces, and enjoy your time in embodsi :)
I’ll be around here and embodsi to answer any questions! Thanks for your feedback and critique.
- Laser
P.S. SI != AI — but an emergent property of many people and what we create cascading and recursively interacting [3]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074156