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Uncanny Valley has only been proven on 2d to my knowledge. It has no relevancy to real life (Outside of watching TV) They took a robot famous for being in the

Uncanny Valley has only been proven on 2d to my knowledge. It has no relevancy to real life (Outside of watching TV) They took a robot famous for being in the Uncanny Valley to an old age home and the residents loved it. It could be possible we don't have the tech yet to produce a 3D object in the Uncanny Valley, but even when you see artistic work by artists like Ron Mueck you'll notice in real life there is no Uncanny Valley

autoexec 7y ago
> Uncanny Valley has only been proven on 2d to my knowledge. I think that it's probably just far more likely to be encountered with CG than something most of us see in real life. Plenty of researchers are working on the issue because it does make some people uncomfortable, not just so that their perfectly fine robots will look better on instagram. I occasionally run into real life examples around Halloween in some of the masks but the effect isn't ever consistent. It's just certain moments when movements (or a lack of them) seem to defy what the brain expects. I've heard the Uncanny Valley used to help explain the reason people can find disabled people, taxidermy, the dead at open coffin funerals or clowns "scary" in real life. It's not even something everyone experiences, or maybe it's better to say that what triggers it in one person might not bother another, so it's hard to pin down. I'm guessing familiarity and time helps a lot too so even if a 20 second video of Repliee R1 creeps you out you'd eventually not be bothered by it if you had one in your house all day. I wouldn't be surprised if a sculpture, properly contextualized in an exhibition environment, was less jarring than a random photo online for the same reason.
AareyBaba 7y ago
The movies "The Polar Express" and "Beowulf" both by Robert Zemeckis were early attempts at using facial animation captured and transferred to digital characters. Both had problems with the uncanny valley.

autoexec 7y ago

> Uncanny Valley has only been proven on 2d to my knowledge. I think that it's probably just far more likely to be encountered with CG than something most of us see in real life. Plenty of researchers are working on the issue because it does make some people uncomfortable, not just so that their perfectly fine robots will look better on instagram. I occasionally run into real life examples around Halloween in some of the masks but the effect isn't ever consistent. It's just certain moments when movements (or a lack of them) seem to defy what the brain expects. I've heard the Uncanny Valley used to help explain the reason people can find disabled people, taxidermy, the dead at open coffin funerals or clowns "scary" in real life. It's not even something everyone experiences, or maybe it's better to say that what triggers it in one person might not bother another, so it's hard to pin down. I'm guessing familiarity and time helps a lot too so even if a 20 second video of Repliee R1 creeps you out you'd eventually not be bothered by it if you had one in your house all day. I wouldn't be surprised if a sculpture, properly contextualized in an exhibition environment, was less jarring than a random photo online for the same reason.

AareyBaba 7y ago

The movies "The Polar Express" and "Beowulf" both by Robert Zemeckis were early attempts at using facial animation captured and transferred to digital characters. Both had problems with the uncanny valley.