Sentences with phrase «uncanny valley»

The higher resolution leads to a sort of spatial uncanny valley, leaving the world feeling a little cold, a little off.

It looked in parts amazing and in parts uncanny valley, but at least its coming even if there was no set date confirmed.

This critically acclaimed game featured motion - capture performances from a number of the Mad Men cast and proved for the first time that facial animation in games could leave uncanny valley.

It feels like a real flagship, but the camera only gave us a glimpse uncanny valley.

There's still the odd touch of uncanny valley in the eyes, but it's pretty damn close to photorealism — even closer than Konami's astonishingly good work in PES 2017.

It doesn't help that, when fairy - sized, the visual effects department plopped their real heads on CGI bodies, culminating in some awful body horror - type uncanny valley effect.

The characters are deep in uncanny valley and really stiff, kind of like actors pumped full of Botox.

With some incredible realism on show, the game edges on uncanny valley.

PlayStation 4 owners will also be able to download Psycho - Pass: Mandatory Happiness and Uncanny Valley for free, with both games cross-buys for the PlayStation Vita.

Signature Edition Games announced they will be teaming up Cowardly Creations to release their survivor horror game Uncanny Valley as a physical edition on PlayStation Vita.

The BIT.TRIP series continues with Runner3 as CommanderVideo returns with all of his creepy friends in an almost unsettling art style through uncanny valley.

If Alone in the Dark had of been released in 1986, it would probably look and play a lot like Uncanny Valley does but it would be so much better and more enjoyable than this game turned out to be.

The first Alita: Battle Angel teaser trailer emphasized impressive visuals, albeit weird uncanny valley stylistic choices that may make Alita a tough project to market.

Simply put, it's jaw - dropping how realistic these visuals look — Square Enix is quickly approaching Uncanny Valley territory here.

The environments are gorgeously haunting and unique, the characters are well - designed and animated fluidly (we've got some serious uncanny valley vibes on show here), whilst the lighting and ambient effects really help bring the world to life.

The first Alita: Battle Angel teaser trailer emphasized impressive visuals, albeit weird uncanny valley stylistic choices that may make Alita a tough project to market.

Also, the free games for the PS Vita will include Uncanny Valley and Psycho - Pass: Mandatory Happiness.

The game does a great job conveying a sense of fear and tension through its audio design, and this is by far Uncanny Valley's strongest element.

Redditor Mykath also has an explanation as to why the Xenoblade Chronicles X characters cause such a knee jerk reaction: «The realistic shadows don't complement the «doughy» faces and instead has a weird uncanny valley thing going on a bit.»

But it's tricky, because much of the action takes place in the virtual world, and it's a weird, uncanny valley sort of virtual, video game virtual, so these actors are having to work really hard to emote, more so than even most animated films.

Lawrence Weschler, the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University and the author of many mind - altering books, including the newly released Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative, braved the elements on a monsoon - like evening to pay a visit to the Brooklyn Rail headquarters, where Rail contributor Jed Lipinski spoke with him about his life and work.

It's a crying shame that Uncanny Valley spends so much of its time crippling your play time with contrivances and strict time limits.

In Japan, where realistic androids have been part of the culture for many years, the visual uncanny valley has diminished considerably.

This result demonstrates the existence of a tactile uncanny valley, says study coauthor Mar Gonzalez - Franco, a human - computer interaction researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington.

This eerie sort of Bacon Uncanny Valley continued into the visual — this fake bacon just looked like unchewed sticks of gum.

The trailers, with their Freddy Krueger and Ninja Turtle cameos, suggest that the movie may hew closer to the former than the latter, while also threatening to misplace the director's craftsmanship in another green - screen uncanny valley, à la Tintin and The BFG.

Uncanny Valley delivers a really interesting proposition: a relatively short survival adventure game that features more potential endings than most games, and wants you to see them all to get... Read More

The earlier reference to Brian Griffin wasn't just facetious: Stark is so much like Brian (from a sense of superiority to a nearly identical voice) that seeing the actor in the flesh just feels kind of weird, like a reverse uncanny valley.

While some may find the Velar's design to be so smooth that it lands in their personal uncanny valley, there is no question that this Range Rover is smartly positioned and well - executed.

Uncanny valley wise I have to say that it seems they tried to jump it with a motorcycle but sadly landed a few feet away from the other side.

Uncanny Valley introduces players to Tom, a security guard who lands a job in a company with terrible secrets from a past crisis.

A side scrolling 2D retro style survival horror mystery set in an abandoned facility, Uncanny Valley tries to capture the essence of modern day horror games and tries to put a slightly different spin on it, but to put it bluntly, it just doesn't work.

I find myself incredibly intrigued by Uncanny Valley after spending an hour with it.

I like the idea that has tried to be created here, I am someone who loves to see developers trying something a little different to what the masses are doing and if I was scoring Uncanny Valley solely on trying to be different then it would get an 8 straight away, but the problem here is that this alternative survival horror is a good idea that has been done badly and it has ended up being a broken, head scratching anti climax.

Visually Uncanny Valley has adopted the 8 - bit style that a lot of the indie titles are using for their art direction in their games and while that visual style suits certain types of games, it does not suit this one at all.

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The deeply uncanny valley of facial animation, the stilted delivery of the awkward, subtlety - free script, a clumsy UI that forces you to craft items one at a time, and please, let's not forget that camera.

Uncanny valley aside, this Mass Effect is a little sillier, a little brighter, and a little more Scooby - Doo than its predecessors, and that helps your brain accept the animations more.

Uncanny Valley wants to be an engaging survival horror romp, and sometimes it gets to be, but it's ultimately an experience that can be best described as mediocre.

The intricate detail — the crinkles on the brow, the subtle movements of the eyes and cheeks — on Ellie in this reveal trailer were incredible, pushing past uncanny valley and into a new territory entirely.

Much like the modern Fallout games, Uncanny Valley features individual limb damage, which directly affects movement and stealth aspects of survival.

Uncanny Valley seems to have a lot to offer fans of survival horror and if the new trailer is any consolation, we may have a really great horror game on our hands.

Through the years of brown and grey to the lens flares of yore, video game graphics have gone from pixelated concepts of objects to uncanny valley micro-emotions.

Liepzig's Credit 00, who put out an album titled «Game Over» earlier this year via Uncanny Valley that was described as «an electronic love letter to the romantic fantasy worlds of classic video games», shares similar views on games» osmosis - like impact.

Fallah's art has an intensely chromatic, uncanny valley kind of realism, depicting a riot of patterns and botanical species that do not share common tropics.