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an eerie and disappointing virtual hiking experience. Uncanny Valley exploits the flashed face distortion effect to turn images of human faces into distorted caricatures. AI generated portraits were taken from thispersondoesnotexist.com and are cycled through at an increasing rate. When two images of faces are placed in the peripherary of our vision and cycled through, our perception of the features begins to change, and the images appear as distorted charicatures. Landscape model was made using blender, to roughly conform to the shape of the graph curve in Masahiro Mori's 1970 essay "The Uncanny Valley". While this effect is not exclusive to facial recognition, and is present in other situations, it can still be used to cause viewers to percieve unaltered images as uncanny distortions.