A big problem with avatars in VR and video games more broadly relates to a problem called the "uncanny valley," a term that refers to when a digital human avatar ends up appearing really unsettling because it's realistic, but just not quite familiar enough.
A big problem with avatars in VR and video games more broadly relates to a problem called the "uncanny valley," a term that refers to when a digital human avatar ends up appearing really unsettling because it's realistic, but just not quite familiar enough.
That perceptual awareness is more sluggish than motion discrimination may appear somewhat unsettling, as we tend often to assume that conscious perception precedes decision.
The potential of an alternative route — albeit one favored in the 1800s before the canal was built — appears to be unsettling Egyptian authorities.
But in this mad frenzy of content consumption, an unsettling theme appears to be emerging.
When Jennifer Aniston first appears onscreen in Daniel Barnz' unsettling new film, Cake, we are instantly aware that her character will be nothing like the irresistibly fetching Rachel she embodied for a decade on Friends.
From afar the creatures appear gawky and unsettling, with their long, scrawny legs, puffball bodies and impossible necks.
The closing track on Green's 1973 album Livin' for You is disconcerting and unsettling, though it appears mellifluous and warm.
The alarming rate of school shootings across the country appears to have added an unsettling new item to parents' list of "back to school" items: bulletproof armor for their children.
However, what appears to be unique and unsettling is the frequency of lies, the mean-spiritedness and tenacity with which the lies are repeated, and the apparent lack of a conscience that comes with telling millions of people that what they believe they are seeing, hearing, and feeling is not reality.
The implications are deeply unsettling but the logic appears sound.
