Definitely odd facial expressions and movements constitute most of the uncanny valley effect. Outside of that I doubt it even exists, at least as a consensus. 

I didn't really comment on the study (since I don't really care much about such stuff - sorry man), only in my opinions. 

The forums have slowed down a LOT recently man.

Anyway, nice read Makes me wonder what we could be able to achieve with the new HW coming out...

Interesting stuff although I don't quite see the same level of concern with video games primarily because you actually know when you are playing one.

This quote from the article sums it up pretty well, "It’s a little hard to describe in layman’s terms, but it basically means that humans would react positively to human-like robots for as long as they could definitely tell they’re still robots.  After that, it is assumed that the robots could start looking less like robots, and slowly inch closer toward near perfect human emulation.  It is at this point where it is theorized that people will have some sort of negative reaction, as the “robots” start to look very human, but not totally human."

When applying this to games, I just don't see there being a point where we wouldn't be able to tell we're playing a game in the same way we wouldn't be able to identify a robot if we saw one. Point being, we know they're graphical images because we know we're playing games. Now, I can still see how this uncanny valley effect could (and does in some instances) detract from gaming because something would be noticeably off about the human's behavior. That much I can agree with, but the comparison between reality and video games isn't a direct comparison.

Overall, interesting article. I definitely learned something.

nope just reading it first. don't really have much to say on it anyway you basically said it all. thanks for the update and like everyone in v2.0 you should be a writer for vg chartz. just still thinking what the tech cage was talking about was that was better than L.A noires'.

Maybe with next gen hardware we will truly reach the uncanny valley. I hope so.

Lol, reach the uncanny valley? isn't dead rising already out?

No, the uncanny valley is the bad, creepy part. You want to clear the valley.

lol okay okay! I meant to get rid of the uncanny valley.

This video has affected me so deeply , trying to get out of the valley and  fail because of the limited technology ( the box ) ... I'm downloading that.
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Very interesting and informative read , you know I think I'm going to get L.A Noire only because I want to see what the new technology has to offer.