Some sillicone masks are now so realistic that they can easily be mistaken for real faces, research suggests. In this study, led by Jet G. Sanders while at University of York (now Assistant Professor ...

I never expected to know so much about face masks, let alone have them become a part of my normal attire. But these are truly strange days. However, society has not completely fallen apart. We still ...

OTSU, Japan — Super-realistic face masks made by a tiny company in rural Japan are in demand from the domestic tech and entertainment industries and from countries as far away as Saudi Arabia. The 300 ...

There’s the age-old concept of stepping into someone else’s shoes to better understand them. Now, thanks to one man from Japan, you can slip their face onto yours. Reuters reports that Shuhei Okawara, ...

Jarred Alcala makes a living indulging his childhood passion for the special-effects side of spooky. “I get to wake up every day and come here and make Halloween masks, make monsters and create and ...

It's perhaps the most defining trope of the many Mission: Impossible movies: Someone mistakes a character for a certain person, until that individual's hyper-realistic mask gets ripped off. Surprise!

TOKYO (Reuters) - A year into the coronavirus epidemic, a Japanese retailer has come up with a new take on the theme of facial camouflage - a hyper-realistic mask that models a stranger's features in ...

A small company in Japan that makes hyper-realistic face masks has found popularity within the tech industry, as reported by Reuters. The masks, which cost about 300,000 yen ($2,650 USD) to create, ...

Hyper-realistic masks are made from flexible materials such as silicone and are designed to imitate real human faces - down to every last freckle, wrinkle and strand of real human hair. In a study by ...

Images of synthetic hyper-realistic masks could be mistaken for those of real faces, according to a study published in the open access journal Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. The ...