Showing posts with label uncanny valley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label uncanny valley. Show all posts

Thursday, May 29, 2008

It's like they're staring straight into my soul!

A definition of the uncanny valley from Wikipedia:

The uncanny valley is a hypothesis that when and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost, but not entirely, like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers.

Or if you need it explained to you in Star Wars, here's a clip from 30 Rock about the subject:



Of course, this doesn't seem to be limited to the human species: