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 ...

Scary Super-Realistic Face Masks Are Scary. By Joshua Schnell. Oct 11, 2011 1:13 pm PDT. Presented without comment.

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 ...

A small company in Japan that makes hyper-realistic face masks has found popularity within the tech industry. The masks, which cost about 300,000 yen ($2,650 USD) to create, are made of resin and ...