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Unfortunately no. Uncanny Valley is a result of things that aren't alive being made to look lifelike which ends up creeping people out. This is something usual

by froo 17y ago

Unfortunately no. Uncanny Valley is a result of things that aren't alive being made to look lifelike which ends up creeping people out. This is something usually avoided in 3D graphics now (The Polar Express comes to mind)... returning pictures of actual people wouldn't have the same effect.

byrneseyeview 17y ago
I wonder if there would be a similar "Uncanny Valley" effect if you have real people--who are the wrong real people, but look sort of like them. Oddly, porn gives you some great case studies: any porn version of a major movie should have this effect. You could potentially do some kind of experiment where you see if Trekkies react to Whoref and 'Bater and Captain Dickhard the way other folks react to The Polar Express.
- froo 17y ago
  Well I've been doing some work with facial recognition lately and I came across some interesting research along those lines. http://leyvand.com/research/beautification2008/ http://leyvand.com/research/beautification2008/ I've also seen similar warping techniques used on more recognisable faces to achieve their "ideal" geometric spacings between facial features and they didn't look off-putting (from an uncanny valley perspective) but just.... wrong. So, I'm leaning towards no, but I'm not an expert.
JulianMorrison 17y ago
The "uncanny valley" would result from seeing pictures picked out to be almost, but not quite, perfect clones of your beloved, which would be creepy as hell.
- froo 17y ago
  I think you are perhaps getting mixed up. The uncanny valley effect occurs when something that you know isn't real that approaches a more familiar state. As your familiarity with the nonliving object increases, that can paradoxically cause you to be repulsed by the object if it isn't 100% right. However, the thing is, you wouldn't feel this effect on something that is already real. You might be creeped out by it, but that is something entirely different at play. Not Uncanny Valley. The kinds of situations where this would come into play would be if someone modelled your partner out of wax in the nude (think Madame Tussauds but for nudity)...

by froo 17y ago

byrneseyeview 17y ago

I wonder if there would be a similar "Uncanny Valley" effect if you have real people--who are the wrong real people, but look sort of like them. Oddly, porn gives you some great case studies: any porn version of a major movie should have this effect. You could potentially do some kind of experiment where you see if Trekkies react to Whoref and 'Bater and Captain Dickhard the way other folks react to The Polar Express.

froo 17y ago
Well I've been doing some work with facial recognition lately and I came across some interesting research along those lines. http://leyvand.com/research/beautification2008/ http://leyvand.com/research/beautification2008/ I've also seen similar warping techniques used on more recognisable faces to achieve their "ideal" geometric spacings between facial features and they didn't look off-putting (from an uncanny valley perspective) but just.... wrong. So, I'm leaning towards no, but I'm not an expert.

JulianMorrison 17y ago

The "uncanny valley" would result from seeing pictures picked out to be almost, but not quite, perfect clones of your beloved, which would be creepy as hell.

froo 17y ago
I think you are perhaps getting mixed up. The uncanny valley effect occurs when something that you know isn't real that approaches a more familiar state. As your familiarity with the nonliving object increases, that can paradoxically cause you to be repulsed by the object if it isn't 100% right. However, the thing is, you wouldn't feel this effect on something that is already real. You might be creeped out by it, but that is something entirely different at play. Not Uncanny Valley. The kinds of situations where this would come into play would be if someone modelled your partner out of wax in the nude (think Madame Tussauds but for nudity)...