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Realistic masks from Japan in increasing demand

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I wonder if they work with Apple's iFace...

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Face off: Realistic masks made in Japan find demand from tech, car firms

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 ¥300,000 ($2,650) masks, made of resin and plastic by five employees at REAL-f Co., attempt to accurately duplicate an individual's face down to fine wrinkles and skin texture.

Company founder Osamu Kitagawa came up with the idea while working at a printing machine manufacturer. But it took him two years of experimentation before he found a way to use three-dimensional facial data from high-quality photographs to make the masks, and started selling them in 2011.

The company, based in Shiga Prefecture , receives about 100 orders every year from entertainment, automobile, technology and security companies, mainly in Japan. For example, a Japanese car company ordered a mask of a sleeping face to improve its facial recognition technology to detect if a driver had dozed off, Kitagawa said. [...]


Source: Face off: Realistic masks made in Japan find demand from tech, car firms | The Japan Times


Face off: Realistic masks made in Japan find demand from tech, car companies | Reuters
 
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