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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by MikusR on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:42PM (#35543640)
What does uncanny valley has to do with VR?
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by detaro on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:45PM (#35543690)
What Meta has been pushing as Metaverse is pretty big on human-like avatars.
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by MikusR on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:02PM (#35544025)
But what does it has to do with VR in general? You don't have to use any of Meta social apps to use VR.
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by JohnFen on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:58PM (#35548205)
It have to do with VR because VR is attempting to replicate reality. If you do that almost, but not quite, perfectly then you're in the uncanny valley. It doesn't have to be about portraying people.

Current VR can't even approach realism -- which keeps it out of the uncanny valley.

However, if the technology improves to the point where the graphics approach realistic, the uncanny valley will become a real problem.

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