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The Valley Gets Uncanny-er
Submitted by mark on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 14:41.
For those of you not all that familiar with the concept of the Uncanny Valley, it basically states that the more human-like that a non-human thing (usually an animation or a robot) appears, the more it freaks us out, until it becomes so realistic that we can virtually not tell the difference between the two. On one hand, you have something like the Real Doll (look it up, pervert) that from a distance can be mistaken for a human, save for the occasional hentai-esque humanoid. On the other hand you have this video (via Kotaku), featuring obscenely realistic mo-capped renderings of humans that may just be the scariest thing I've seen all year. For those of you keeping score, I'm about as far into the dip of the Uncanny Valley as I can be at this point...
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The guy on the right not so much, but I was particularly impressed by the old guy's skin and the chick's hair. Pretty creepy.
And it almost appears as if it's being rendered on the fly, at least the way that they seem to be responding to what the guy says. Don't know if those graphics are possible when rendering like that though.
wax dummies
The look like animatronic version of Madame Toussad's wax figures. Which I guess is imprssive since those of real physical things even if they aren't real people.
"I like it when they lie still like that."
Allison and I went to a wax
Allison and I went to a wax museum and it scared the living shit out of me. Walking into a room that appears to be full of people and then realizing that you and your girlfriend are the only breathing beings in there is a pretty shocking thing.
Wax museum
When my dad was in basic training he brought one of his barrack mates back home with him to New York while on leave and took him to wax museum. They go into a room and there's a statue of a security guard. They were both pretty drunk so they start berating the statue for not have it's uniform properly pressed and shit like that. By now I'm sure you've guessed where the stories going. It wasn't a statue, the guard turned to them and said, "Sorry man, I was running late for work." They both screamed and ran out of the museum.
"I like it when they lie still like that."
hadn't heard of the Uncanny
hadn't heard of the Uncanny Valley, but that is some creepy stuff. When they actually manage to get depth into the eyes of these things, is it gonna be freakier or oddly comforting?