Comment by wharvle
2 years ago
I hadn’t thought about it until just now, but the most recent Apple events really are the closest real-person thing I’ve ever seen to some of the “good” computer generated photorealistic (kinda…) humans “reading” with text-to-speech that I’ve seen.
It’s the stillness between “beats” that does it, I think, and the very-constrained and repetitive motion.
Is there such a concept as a “reverse uncanny valley”??
Where humans behave so awkwardly that they seem artificial but are just not quite close enough…
If so, Apple have totally nailed the reverse uncanny valley!
Hmm. Like the "NPC fetish" stuff that was going around for a brief minute?