UncV Article

[xodar]

Fortean Times magazine number 303, July 2013, has an article about the uncanny valley by Ian Simmons on pages 36 to 41. Simmons covers the term's origin and has examples from various situations (as in supposed interviews with "men in black"). He shows various examples including Japanese robots and Realdoll and begining attempts to create computer simulations of people (Tom Hanks in Polar Express) and notes the different theories as to why the valley exists -- robots and dolls that look like corpses, for example, incite a natural revulsion for the dead when they reach a certain level -- and suggests that research into it will help us differentiate between natural happenings that elicit it and genuinely bizarre phenomena.

[--NightBattery--]

sometimes i think the uncanny valley is something that masahiro mori created only because he couldn't come to admit he made awkward androids, like freud and psychosexuallity.
artists (3D and plastic) only need to push it a little more and soon we'll have dead people making movies again (and robot prostitutes.)

[dale coba]

The "Uncanny Valley" is more a hypothesis than it is a predictive or proved theory.
Who knows what we would quickly get used to?
Once, I thought it meant something.
The Wikipedia page shows terribly weak experimental research.

- Dale Coba