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MotionScan Gives the Lie to the Uncanny Valley

MotionScan Gives the Lie to the Uncanny Valley

An Australian company’s vivid new motion-capture technique not only enlivens cut scenes, but opens up a whole new range of challenges in the gameplay itself. Continue reading

Midday groove: The Books, "I Didn't Know That"

Midday groove: The Books, “I Didn’t Know That”

The electronic collage-music duo The Books give leisure time one more crank of the handle, and it all becomes funny and vaguely unsettling: an 18-hole course deep in the uncanny valley. Continue reading

The uncanny GIF

The uncanny GIF

The animated GIF may be little appreciated in the world of Web 2.0—but in the right hands, it plays with the unsettling riddle of our mechanical nature. Continue reading

Robothespian takes the stage

Robothespian takes the stage

The uncanny valley is getting crowded. A female-modeled version of Geminoid, roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro’s creepy android, is now appearing opposite a human actor in Japan in a short play entitled Sayonara—as in, “sayonara, humans.” Continue reading

Computer Graphics That Look More Real Than My Wife’s Tits

If you thought that you looked real when staring at yourself in a mirror, think again. Compared to the photo-realistic computer animation of Emily, you’re a closer to a plastic doll than real flesh and bone. Using new modeling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured, Image Metrics have created the first ever animation to overcome the longtime obstacle known as “uncanny valley”. This is the perception that animation looks less realistic as... Continue reading