Artist uses visual projection to change people's faces

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Artist Nobumichi Asai has found a way to project and map expressions onto people's faces, effectively creating a visual facial mask. He and his team displayed their three-dimensional facial projection mapping system to a select group of spectators in Tokyo. The team drew inspiration from the sense of beauty inherent in traditional Japanese culture, animation and technology. But they quickly discovered that simply projecting a totally symmetrical face seen typically in video games would produce a 'barbie doll' look, killing the realism, so they instead designed a face asymmetrically, introducing subtle flaws. Asai and his team are currently looking for funding to take the project, to the next level and are considering how they might be able to project on the human body next. Report by Lauren Hood.
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[@Aymiikeeganmelb]

When your phone or computer glitches it freezes ....What will happen when this program glitches ?? Will there be computer hackers who add there own facial " enhancements " i can't help but think of the bagel head movement over there ...

[@xehP]

What can I say? Japan is fucking awesome! hopefully going to uni to study their language.

[@kranwa15]

Okay. where's the human body video? interesting...

[@garyt3039]

Could be a step closer to an invisible cloak tech?..could get into my time machine on my UFO with my cloak of invisiblivitivity then who knows what I could get up to,when or were? :-) your welcome.

[@ninja2kernow]

cool

[@BoxxyFan]

good waste of taxpayers money

[@mirandansa]

This isn't a government project.

[@mabz9]

Fucking idiot.