Ars Electronica Festival · 2016
Uncanny Valley
by AlteredQualia, Fractal Fantasy
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2016
AlteredQualia and Fractal Fantasy's “Uncanny Valley” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2016, category Computer Animation.
Creating convincing synthetic human beings is a notoriously difficult task. The "uncanny valley" phenomenon is a hypothesis that as you try to increase the realism of your human-like creations, there is a point behind which improvements actually become negative, causing a sense of unease or repulsion.
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