Japanese startup REAL-f Co. creates hyper-realistic masks from resin and plastic that corporations such as Apple and Google use to train face recognition systems.

The company's founder, Osamu Kitagawa, spent two years developing a method for converting personal data from high-quality photos to 3D masks, and REAL-f Co. now receives about 100 orders per year.

Each mask costs 300 thousand yen ($ 2,650) and replicates the smallest details of a person’s face, right up to eye vessels and fine wrinkles.

In a conversation with Reuters, Kitagawa said that in the future he plans to start producing low-cost hulls for humanoid robots, which will be difficult to distinguish from humans.

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