Archive for August 1st, 2006

the uncanny valley

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

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a) visible light video image, b) unvisible light fluorescent image, c) recontructed image according to the New York Times

Yesterday the New York Times as well as the Wall Street Journal published an article about a new motion capture device called “Contour” which was apparently shown at siggraph yesterday and which was developped by former Apple Computer engineer Steve Perlman.
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