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 ...

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, ...

Faces litter Landon Meier’s south Denver house. Here is Mike Tyson, gap-toothed smile, tribal face tattoo and all. Over there, Donald Trump, his straw-colored hair in dire need of a trim. These aren’t ...

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 ...

Kamenya Omote, a shop in Tokyo, is selling 3D-printed masks that replicate people's real faces (all images courtesy of Shuhei Okawara/Kamenya Omote) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers ...

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, ...

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 ...