Project 3;
Main research Question;
Why are some near-human characters scary while others are merely laughable, do we as humans relate better to animated figures that appear to be, but are not quite, human-like, than those that begin to approach the ideal?
What is the uncanny Valley?
In 1970 Masahiro Mori proposed the Hypothesis “The Uncanny Valley”: a relation between [...]
WHY REALISTIC GRAPHICS MAKE HUMANS LOOK CREEPY. GAMING: THE ART OF PLAY.
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The problem, is in the nature of how we identify with robots.
When an android, such as R2-D2 or C-3PO, barely looks human, we cut it a lot of slack. It seems cute.
But when a robot becomes 99 percent lifelike—so close that it’s almost real—we focus on the missing 1 percent. The once-cute robot now looks like [...]
