They’re not just for Halloween anymore. Expensive, realistic masks — the kind that are the hit of the costume party — are increasingly being used out of season, and not always for laughs.

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 ...

Research Rob Jenkins holds a hyper-realistic mask. University of York. The wily agents in Mission: Impossible make it a habit to fool their enemies by wearing realistic face masks as disguises.

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

Hyper-realistic silicone masks are now being made so realistic that one in five people cannot distinguish them from a real person's face in split-second situations, a study has found.

Modern "hyper realistic" masks can be so convincing that people often can't distinguish them from a real face, say researchers. The latest masks can cost around £1,000 and experts say they could ...

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 ...

Actors wearing realistic masks of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and others at an event this month in New York. Trey Hicks/PROOF. 2023-04-26T09:00:00Z ...