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 ...

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 ...

It’s easy to spot someone wearing a mask, right? Well, new research suggests that it can be much harder than you think. Masks are a great way to help actors get into character and scare young children ...

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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...