Creepy hyper-realistic masks are 'more believable than human faces' The creepy silicone masks, created by researchers from the Universities of York and Kyoto, feature several human-like qualities ...

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 ...

Expensive, realistic masks — the kind that are the hit of the Halloween costume party — increasingly are being used by criminals, authorities say.

The result is a line of “hyper-realistic,” three-dimensional masks that appear to be one breath away from opening their mouths and speaking. “Mask shops in Venice probably do not buy or sell ...

Perhaps hyper-realistic masks are usually much harder to get away with. Rob Jenkins research group and Mike Burton's FaceVar lab from the University of York, set out to address this question.

The wily agents in Mission: Impossible make it a habit to fool their enemies by wearing realistic face masks as disguises. Mask technology has now gotten to a point where those storylines aren't ...

The specialty-mask store is paying Tokyo residents $380 (about £286, AU$514) to have their faces copied onto realistic 3D-printed masks. The company will then sell the 3D-printed version of your ...

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.