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Gaming in 3D

3D gaming is available on all of today's major consoles, excluding the Nintendo Wii. With the rise of 3D home theater systems, consumers are seeing more and more opportunities to bring stereoscopic 3D to their PS3 and XBox 360 experience. If you're a PC gamer there are already dozens of titles that take advantage of NVIDIA's 3D Vision technology.

What is the Uncanny Valley?

The uncanny valley is a term coined in 1970 by Japanese robotics professor Masahiro Mori, and describes the negative emotional response often experienced by human observers when viewing attempted photorealistic human renderings or models.

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