To the uncanny, the new Dell looks pretty much like the old Dell.
MacDorman's current focus is on the uncanny valley with respect to empathy: that is, is the uncanny valley phenomenon related to a person's difficulty in identifying with particular computer-animated or robotic characters in films?
While the timing is uncanny, the discrepancy may never be explained.
The sense of humour behind the uncanny impressions of fellow players and the karaoke performances on YouTube must have annoyed as many of his contemporaries as they amused.
If PS4 can solve the uncanny valley, and bring true emotion to games, the industry could have its Citizen Kane.
Shane Meadows wrote and directed this semi-autobiographical drama, set in a British coastal town in the early eighties, about a sweet twelve-year-old, Sean (the uncanny Thomas Turgoose), whose father died fighting for England in the Falklands.
He has the uncanny ability to get his body into a position where he is able to hit the ball where there are no fieldsmen.
Beyond putting his money where his mouth is, what makes Krensavage, 40, worth listening to is the uncanny precision with which he's picked, and panned, drug stocks over the years.
He worked on series like The Uncanny X-Men and Battle Chasers before joining up with Vigil Games to work on the original Darksiders.
In "Lincoln, " he faced unusual challenges, because the focus was almost exclusively on Tony Kushner's literate script and Daniel Day-Lewis's uncanny portrayal of the president.
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Through this and other work, we know something about the uncanny murmurations of starlings.
Or so the theory of the Uncanny Valley, first proposed by Japanese roboticist Masihiro Mori, goes.
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It's an uncanny repeat of the similar electoral success of the anti-establishment Syriza party in Greece.
The idea of the uncanny valley was originally proposed by Masahiro Mori, a Japanese roboticist, in 1970.
The uncanny valley phenomenon was put forth in an article in "Energy" in 1970 by Japanese robotics expert Masahiro Mori.
But before that, Ernst Jentsch wrote about "the uncanny" in a 1906 essay, and Sigmund Freud followed up 13 years later.
Researchers may be able to understand the EEG patterns associated with the uncanny valley effect, and people's comfort with various robotic forms.
He is a baseball pariah -- Barry Bonds without the uncanny cruelness.
Only two of them, however, are needed to explain the uncanny valley.
Dr Gray and Dr Wegner believe their findings argue that a big part of the uncanny-valley effect stems from expectations not being met.
The uncanny fusion of actual and virtual space utilizes dual stereoscopic projections, mirrors, a double-sided projection and game engine software customized by the artists.
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Not only do they read their environment well, but they possess the uncanny ability to adapt their messaging to said environment without missing a beat.
That this pay differential between senior and junior employees bears an uncanny resemblance to the gap found in America's legitimate businesses is, of course, entirely coincidental.
For he believed, as I do, too, that there was an uncanny resemblance between the situation we were in and the one the world faced in 1938.
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One of the steepest challenges for computer animators and game developers is crafting realistic human characters without dropping their audience off the proverbial cliff of the uncanny valley.
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Zombies occupy what roboticists and animators call "the uncanny valley" in human perception though decidedly not human, they are so close to being human that they prompt instant revulsion.
Saygin and colleagues published a study last year using functional magnetic resonance imagining (fMRI), looking at what's happening in the brain that might explain the uncanny valley phenomenon.
The uncanny valley effect could have to do with uncertainty about whether a robotic character is truly alive or dead, and even play into our deep-seated fears of death.
Appearing from some angles like a blocky citadel, from others like a strange gray galleon, the museum has an air of the uncanny, as do many of Amateur's projects.
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