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An Australian company's vivid new motion-capture technique not only enlivens cut scenes, but opens up a whole new range of challenges in the gameplay itself.

The electronic collage-music duo The Books give leisure time one more crank of the handle, and it all becomes funny and vaguely unsettling: an 18-hole course deep in the uncanny valley.

The animated GIF may be little appreciated in the world of Web 2.0�but in the right hands, it plays with the unsettling riddle of our mechanical nature.

The uncanny valley is getting crowded. A female-modeled version of Geminoid, roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro's creepy android, is now appearing opposite a human actor in Japan in a short play entitled Sayonara�as in, "sayonara, humans."

If you thought that you looked real when staring at yourself in a mirror, think again. Compared to the photo-realistic computer animation of Emily, you’re a closer to a plastic doll than real flesh and bone. Using new modeling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured, Image Metrics have created the first ever ...