Facts about The Uncanny Valley

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   Eerily realistic CGI humans in the 2004 film The Polar Express were widely cited as a prominent example of the uncanny valley effect in mainstream cinema.

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   Animation studios like Pixar have deliberately avoided hyper-realistic human characters to sidestep the uncanny valley effect in their films.

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   Proposed explanations for the uncanny valley link the discomfort response to evolutionary disease-avoidance mechanisms, as near-human appearances may trigger pathogen detection instincts.

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   Empirical studies have shown that the uncanny valley effect is modulated by movement, with moving humanoid figures triggering stronger discomfort than static ones.

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   Robotics professor Masahiro Mori first described the uncanny valley phenomenon in a 1970 essay, noting that near-human robots provoke unease rather than empathy.

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