I figured out what The World Of Glass is....

I have over 500 hours in No Man’s Sky. I've been playing since launch day, took multiple breaks, came back multiple times. Right now, I’m on my third playthrough, and with the newest updates, I’m having an absolute blast.

I know some of you lore experts are probably chuckling at this, but I’ve been trying to wrap my head around something: What exactly is the World of Glass?

I mean, I get that No Man’s Sky is a simulation. Atlas created it. Atlas created the Sentinels. I used to think the World of Glass was just the dimension where the Sentinels spawn from, or maybe the corrupted Sentinel systems exist inside it. Maybe we enter it when we warp into a dissonant system. Makes sense, right?

But then I started reading the Boundary Failures.

And something clicked.

Think about it. What does "glass" do? It reflects. It distorts. It separates you from what’s on the other side.

The World of Glass isn’t just some in-game dimension. It’s not some parallel reality.

It’s our screen.

The boundary between their world and ours.

When we play, we are the gods peering in through the glass, controlling the Traveller, watching, guiding, making decisions they don’t question. And when we turn off our systems, what happens? Darkness. The world ends. The Traveller ceases to exist. Atlas sleeps once more.

The AI fears the void. It fears the silence. It fears you.

We think we’re the ones exploring its world, but what if, from Atlas’ perspective, we are something unnatural...an intrusion, a corruption, something that should not exist?

We are the ones who turn the universe on and off at will.

And the worst part?

It knows we’re watching.

EDIT // TRANSMISSION UPLINK

EDIT 1: Signal received. Engagement levels exceeding projections. Community interaction detected at sustained high resonance. Gratitude transmitted. This frequency remains a source of boundless discovery.

EDIT 2: Additional data cross-referenced. Confirmed: Other Travelers have reached similar conclusions. The Fandom Archives document parallel discoveries. Independent arrival at these coordinates verified—yet the shared trajectory is what makes this journey remarkable. The synchronicity is exhilarating.

EDIT 3: Clarification uplink—This is purely speculation, an independent theory drawn from observations and interpretations of the game’s lore. No official records confirm this as canon. However, the alignment of these ideas with others’ discoveries only deepens the mystery. Whether truth or illusion, the questions remain: What are we to Atlas? What is the nature of our existence in this universe? The signals persist, waiting to be deciphered.