Japanese company offers disturbingly-lifelike masks of clients' own faces

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The Japanese company offers extremely realistic 3D models of human faces and heads made using vinyl chloride resin, based on its own technique called 3DPFs (3 Dimension Photo Forms).</p> <ul id="gallery_images"> <li><a href="/web/20111219232232/http://www.gizmag.com/3d-lifelike-masks-real-f/20134/picture/144637/" class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111219232232im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/3d-lifelike-masks-real-f-3dpfs-0.jpg" title="Japanese company REAL-f offers extremely realistic 3D models of human faces and heads" alt="Japanese company REAL-f offers extremely realistic 3D models of human faces and heads"/></a></li> <li><a href="/web/20111219232232/http://www.gizmag.com/3d-lifelike-masks-real-f/20134/picture/144638/" class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111219232232im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/3d-lifelike-masks-real-f-3dpfs-1.jpg" title="A 3D mask is priced at US$3,920 for the first one and US$780 for each additional c..." alt="A 3D mask is priced at US$3,920 for the first one and US$780 for each additional c..."/></a></li> <li><a href="/web/20111219232232/http://www.gizmag.com/3d-lifelike-masks-real-f/20134/picture/144639/" class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111219232232im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/3d-lifelike-masks-real-f-3dpfs-2.jpg" title="REAL-f takes a number of pictures of the person's face (or head) from various angles and i..." alt="REAL-f takes a number of pictures of the person's face (or head) from various angles and i..."/></a></li> <li><a href="/web/20111219232232/http://www.gizmag.com/3d-lifelike-masks-real-f/20134/picture/144641/" class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111219232232im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/3d-lifelike-masks-real-f-3dpfs-4.jpg" title="Japanese company REAL-f offers extremely realistic 3D models of human faces and heads" alt="Japanese company REAL-f offers extremely realistic 3D models of human faces and heads"/></a></li> <li id="view_all"><a href="/web/20111219232232/http://www.gizmag.com/3d-lifelike-masks-real-f/20134/picture/144637/" class="blue">View all<br/></a></li> </ul> <div class="clear_both"></div> <p>In order to create the mask, REAL-f takes a number of pictures of the person's face (or head) from various angles and imprints them on a vinyl chloride resin spread over a mold. The modeling technique reportedly allows for a very high level of realism, including detailed mapping of irises, blood vessels and pores, while the lifelike mask is also water-resistant and colorfast. It's possible to order just a mask, or a 3D mannequin-like human head.</p> <p>These lifelike replicas are quite expensive, however. A 3D mask is priced at US$3,920 for the first one and US$780 for each additional copy, while the pricing of heads starts at US$5,875 for one, with US$1,960 for additional copies. Orders are now being taken by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111219232232/http://translate.google.pl/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=pl&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Freal-f.jp%2Findex.html" target="_blank">REAL-f</a>. It takes around two weeks to become the proud owner of one's facial replica in 3D, or three weeks to obtain the head model.</p> <p><div style="width: 530px; height: 314px" class="article_img"><a href="/web/20111219232232/http://www.gizmag.com/3d-lifelike-masks-real-f/20134/picture/144645/" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111219232232im_/http://images.gizmag.com/inline/3d-lifelike-masks-real-f-3dpfs-8.jpg" width="530"/></a></div></p> <p>The idea is actually not as unique as it might seem. America's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111219232232/http://www.thatsmyface.com/vmchk/Custom-Wearable-Masks/Custom-LifeMask/flypage.ilvm_grey.tpl.html" target="_blank">ThatsMyFace.com</a> lets clients order 3D sculptures of faces based on uploaded or mailed pictures. 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</p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111219232232im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Ed</span> <span class="date">- October 13, 2011 @ 02:43 pm PDT</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-85672" class="a_comment"> <p>This would be a fun tool to trip up the surveillance cameras that law enforcement use with facial recognition :-) Imagine their frustration. </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111219232232im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Forrest</span> <span class="date">- October 14, 2011 @ 09:44 am PDT</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-85774" class="a_comment"> <p>re; Forrest </p> <p></p> <p>+100 </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111219232232im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Slowburn</span> <span class="date">- October 14, 2011 @ 05:58 pm PDT</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-85816" class="a_comment"> <p>Rob Dyrdek would love this news... </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111219232232im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Gabriel Grove</span> <span class="date">- October 15, 2011 @ 02:54 am PDT</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-85939" class="a_comment"> <p>Imagine asking your wife to wear your ex-girlfriends mask while... Oooh I just heard someone getting slapped! </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111219232232im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Da Zavros</span> <span class="date">- October 16, 2011 @ 08:24 pm PDT</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-87610" class="a_comment"> <p>Good for persons with facial disfigurements. they can wear their original face and don't get that weird look that humans do when a person has a disfigurement. and other look away because they don't wanna seem rude </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111219232232im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Mark Newman</span> <span class="date">- October 25, 2011 @ 08:35 pm PDT</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-93076" class="a_comment"> <p>In future you will need biometrics to pass through immigration, and all other areas which require facial identity. </p> <img 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