Computer generated characters are more realistic than ever, but Activision is pushing boundaries further than you'll believe. But when is realistic too realistic? Will this leap into the so-called 'uncanny valley' make future video games and even robots unbearable?
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Video game company Activision unveiled its new state-of-the-art real-time graphics during the
2013 Game Developers Conference on Wednesday. The graphics are so real, you might leap across the uncanny valley."
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Is It Real? With New
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Crossed The 'Uncanny Valley'?"
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/28/175635684/is-it-real-with-new-technology-has-activision-crossed-the-uncanny-valley
"This rendering was presented by
Jorge Jimenez of the video game company
Activision Blizzard during the 2013 Game Developers Conference on Wednesday."
"Is This the
World's Most
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http://news.discovery.com/tech/robotics/realistic-robot-120716.htm
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I've never made it past the front door of a wax museum. Why? Because all those figures inside look stricken with rigor mortis and that alone gives me a cosmic case of the heebie-jeebies."
"What Makes a
Face Look Alive?
Study Says
It's in the
Eyes"
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index
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.html
"The face of a doll is clearly not human; the face of a human clearly is."
"How Robotics
Master Masahiro Mori Dreamed Up the '
Uncanny Valley'"
http://www.wired.com/magazine/
2011/11/pl_mori/
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Big ideas often start small, but Masahiro Mori's concept of the "uncanny valley" had a particularly low-profile debut."
"Why "Uncanny Valley"
Human Look-Alikes Put Us on
Edge"
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article
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"The sensation may arise when the viewer's brain begins to consider an artificial figure as a possible human."
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Professor Ishiguro's
Creepy Robot
Doppelganger"
http://www.wired.com/table_of_malcontents/
2007/04/professor_ishig/
"Professor
Hiroshi Ishiguro of
Osaka University in
Japan has created his own robot double."
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- published: 04 Apr 2013
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