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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.

Paging Masahiro Mori….Mr. Masahiro Mori to the white courtesy phone, please…

Do You Know the Definition? Uncanny Valley 7 hours 4 min ago by geeksugar 317 Views - 0 comments Do you know, or can you guess, the definition for this geeky term? Uncanny Valley

Pendulum’s AlterEgo facial performance division is trying to break through the uncanny valley effect with it’s CGI human and humanoid animation. The uncanny valley is a phenomena where the closer to life like a robotic or CGI representation of a human is the more it bothers us.

Filed under: Rants I'm talking about this dog. Not just any dog. The Big Dog. It may not have teeth (though I'm sure those servo-motors could put a hurtin' on) but when I was shown this video earlier in the week I felt sure it had taken a few nips at my soul.

Katia called her parents and said, “Mom!  Dad!  I almost died!” “Uh, let me explain!” I cried, running to get the other phone so I could do some explaining!  If anyone had read my post Signs, Signs, Everywhere A Sign, then you would know that if I was telling this story to Michelle she would have

This is very cool and very creepy.

This past weekend, Ryan and I spent a little bit of time in a terrible Lower East Side club where the bouncers were dickbags, the cover was unwarranted given how few people were actually inside, the drinks were Dixie Cup-sized and expensive, and my friend who was having her birthday party there was

Parody is a good barometer for popularity.  The humor magazine, Cracked, sends up The 7 Creepiest Real-Life Robots.  Robert Brockway’s bawdy, Rated-R write ups include hilarious (yet astutely observed) rationales for “why it’s so, so creepy,” like this one for the “Actroid” robot pictured above: The Actroid is fairly tame on the creepy scale … just as long as she remains immobile.

I’ve been wandering farther and farther afield, reading a variety of SL blogs. While I love looking at the pictures from SL, I find that the text that most interests me is when the author is contemplating the relationships between SL and RL.