FEATURE: Is the "uncanny valley" good for a future metaverse?

It has been over five decades since Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori developed a theory describing the eerie or uneasy feeling people experience in response to humanoid robots that closely, but not perfectly, resemble human beings.Labeled the "uncanny valley" by Mori in 1970, the phenomenon has stood the test of time with more recent examples of creepiness filtering into the burgeoning fields of artificial intelligence, photorealistic computer animation, virtual reality, augmented reality, and increasingly lifelike androids.But what happens beyond the other side of the valley as resemblanc…READ FULL ARTICLE