[phaus]

I thought the uncanny valley specifically referred to things that are so close to realistic that it physically creeps people out because they subconsciously know somethings wrong. Not necessarily realistic graphics taking away the magic. We aren't even close to the level of realism in games that's creepy IMO. Probably another few generations of GPUs away from that.

[tuatoru]

Yeah, this phenomenon is more like the hi-fi treadmill, where the closer your sound system is to perfect reproduction, the more annoying the remaining flaws get. And so you upgrade...