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by ushakov 1252 days ago
Is it me or does the person presenting look uncanny, almost like a 3D avatar?
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My guess is the combination of sort of sped-up audio and video plus lighting that is too even and "perfect", and the random blinks that don't seem to correspond to a regular human's average intervals (seriously, go look at it consciously, it's very weird) combine to land it straight in the uncanny valley.
(I work at Retool.) Ankur is definitely a real engineer (and also a very nice human) who works at Retool! https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankur-rastogi/
Not sure if it's just me but the audio is completely unsynchronized from the video, maybe it's related?
Feels and sounds like it might be sped-up just a touch, therefore making it seem unnatural?