{"id":465,"date":"2008-11-07T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T10:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/07\/how-real-should-robots-and-avatars-be\/"},"modified":"2008-11-07T11:04:07","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T10:04:07","slug":"how-real-should-robots-and-avatars-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/07\/how-real-should-robots-and-avatars-be\/","title":{"rendered":"How real should robots and avatars be ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A really nice video explaining the &#8220;you-have-to-know&#8221; concept of the &#8220;Uncanny Valley&#8221; first coined by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in the 1970&#8217;s : If a robot or an avatar looks too realistic but is not perfect, users will be repulsed. If they are less realistic, users will be much more likely to adopt them.<\/p>\n<p>A real problem anyone dealing with virtual humans should be aware of.<\/p>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FKTAJBQSm10[\/youtube]\n<p>And\u00c2\u00a0 one last thought for great author Michael Chrichton who died on tuesday..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A really nice video explaining the &#8220;you-have-to-know&#8221; concept of the &#8220;Uncanny Valley&#8221; first coined by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in the 1970&#8217;s : If a robot or an avatar looks too realistic but is not perfect, users will&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[133,290,364,365],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}