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Heavy Rain in the "Uncanny Valley" [update 1]
Clive Thompson over at collision detection has spotted a very bad example of the "Uncanny Valley" rearing its ugly head (literally) in the trailer for the upcoming PS3 game, Heavy Rain, the sequel to Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy. The theory of the "Un...
GT5 Prologue seen driving into uncanny valley
This is your virtual car. (Points to car) This is your virtual car with its textures' reflectivity bumped up to 500%. (Points to own finger reflected from car's bumper) Any questions? In watching new trailer for Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, which ...
Does the Wii escape the Uncanny Valley? [update 1]
An editorial at The Wiire claims the Nintendo Wii actually benefits from its technical inferiority. The Uncanny Valley is an issue we have discussed before: character models that are almost lifelike but lack a certain pizzaz that renders them creepy ...
GDC08: Final Fantasy, beautiful men, and fighting the uncanny valley
Note: We'd like to show you images from the session, but as is typical of Square Enix events, no photography of any sort was allowed. Isamu Kamikokuryo discussed the process of making art for Final Fantasy in a crowded Q&A panel at this year's G...
New Heavy Rain screenshots seek path out of Uncanny Valley
A lot has changed since Heavy Rain's initial E3 2006 showing. A handful of new screenshots have emerged (via Spilzonen, Ripten) that show the game has moved from the center of the Uncanny Valley to somewhere on the outskirts. If this is the same wom...
Project Morpheus dev gives tips for overcoming the 'uncanny VR-alley'
You may be familiar with the Uncanny Valley, the idea that photorealistic human images can cause discomfort because they're the little bit off from the real thing. At GDC Europe, Sony Immersive Technology designer Jed Ashforth put forward what he ca...
Contour captures faces, avoids Uncanny Valley
Contour is the newest project from Steve Perlman -- an alum from tech companies like Apple, WebTV, and Moxi -- and it aims to not only greatly increase the resolution of facial capture techniques, but to bypass the entire Uncanny Valley thing entire...
CGI night elf causes screaming in uncanny valley
That sound you hear is the uncanny valley screaming out in terror. This latest completely CGI woman created by artist Max Kor blows our mind. Originally created to be a submission in a World of Warcraft contest, Kor says he didn't submit it because...
Michael Jackson: The Experience: The Launch Trailer
Is it just us, or are the glowing, blank-faced dancers in the Just Dance games kind of uncanny-valley creepy? If you feel the same way, consider this a warning: this trailer features a bunch of gameplay from Michael Jackson: The Experience for Wii, w...
Monument Valley, Threes! receive Apple year-end awards
It's the year of the puzzler on mobile, as Apple awards the numerical master class of Threes! and visually luxe Monument Valley with game of the year nods. The gorgeous platformer Leo's Fortune was the runner-up iPhone game of the year. If these ...
Monument Valley dev: 5% of Android players paid to play
Monument Valley developer Ustwo revealed that only five percent of the game's installs on Android are "paid for." It divulged "interesting data" about the game in recent tweets, clarifying that a "small number" of the other 95 percent of installs we...
Far Cry 4's season pass trailer is abominable
This video for Far Cry 4 teases the game's add-on Valley of the Yetis mission, available as part of the game's season pass. Ubisoft's next Far Cry adventure will launch on November 18 for PC, Xbox One, PS4, Xbox 360 and PS3....
Japan: Why all the big headed baseball games?
Tim Rogers from Next-Gen has done some "investigatory journalism" behind the popularity of big-headed baseball games in Japan. He argues that although games like Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 13 can be fun, they represent "an unfortunate trend in des...
Dermatologists pore over new Heavy Rain screens
Remember Heavy Rain? Quantic Dream's upcoming PS3 adventure ran into the Uncanny Valley and many were concerned it wouldn't be able to come back. Two new very close-up images from the game are meant to show the game's incredible skin rendering capab...
