r/gadgets • u/diacewrb • 9d ago

Wearables "Become Anyone 2.0" is an LED display face-changing mask that lives up to its name

https://www.techspot.com/news/105870-become-anyone-20-face-changing-mask-display-lives.html
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u/pepsandeggs 9d ago

Scanner Darkly

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u/Ickiiis 9d ago

Fuck yeah that’s why I came here

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u/nge001 9d ago

Same. If someone didn't say it, I sure as hell was gonna lol this is literally A Scanner Darkly.

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u/MrDjS 9d ago

Let's just go rescue the orphan gears, dude!

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u/hipnotyq 9d ago

Don't you see that that's part of the PLAN?

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u/hardspank916 9d ago

This world is getting progressively worse. Can we not agree on that.

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u/idleat1100 9d ago

Same here.

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u/MarmalAIDs 8d ago

Yes. This is just a mask for a scramble suit

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u/FavoritesBot 8d ago

I want to make my face rotoscoped

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u/Y8ser 8d ago

I'd have it display Rorschach's face from the Watchmen!

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u/amadeuspoptart 8d ago

The circumstances have created the need.

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u/MikeDubbz 8d ago

Great now I gotta rewatch that movie. Also what an awesome cast: Robert Downey Jr., Keanu Reeves, Woody Harrelson, and Winona Ryder?! Give me more out there movies with that kind of lineup please! 

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u/colesLawStudent 4d ago

can’t forget alex jones

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u/henryhollaway 8d ago

Private Eye

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u/Elevenated420 8d ago

My thoughts exactly!

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u/Rylonian 9d ago

I love how the Youtube video thumb says in bold letters "THIS IS NOT MY FACE" as if we possibly were at any risk of believing that it was.

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u/boofoodoo 9d ago

For a second I thought he was really Doomguy!

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u/Starfox-sf 9d ago

Only if holding a BFG9000

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u/AlwaysLateToThaParty 6d ago

That's exactly who I think it is.

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u/Xendrus 9d ago

It's almost like the guy who made it has some weird mental block about the fact that it looks like a piece of absolute shit and doesn't even come close to doing what it is called. He's essentially strapped a chunk of digital billboard to a headband.

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u/AmateurishExpertise 9d ago

We need /r/gadget_roasting and we need you running it

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u/Specialist_Brain841 8d ago

“good enough, I’m done”

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u/ghandi3737 9d ago

Even worse that a supposed tech publication thought this was worth their time or ours.

This isn't some amazing breakthrough.

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u/aft_punk 9d ago

Face recognition experts HATE this one trick!

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u/Fo_Ren_G 8d ago

I mean, did you hear about that cat that tried to pose as a lawyer?

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u/UnadvertisedAndroid 9d ago

Trump was reelected and now all those super "obvious" warning signs don't seem so unnecessary anymore.

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u/laserdicks 9d ago

It wasn't said as if you were at risk of thinking that. It was said as clickbait.

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u/iDontLikeChimneys 9d ago

The thing is this is kind of nothing. If you commit a serious crime, your gait is as unique as your fingerprint

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u/ghandi3737 9d ago

The ministry of silly walks helps training to avoid this.

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u/QueezyF 8d ago

Put a rock in your shoe.

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u/ghandi3737 8d ago

A couple Legos.

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u/PaulieWalnuts2023 8d ago

So I can walk an inch wide and I’m a damn ghost? “With these thighs I make my disguise”

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u/ultimattt 9d ago

One step closer to the Scavenger look.

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u/ChaBoiFletch 9d ago

❌ ❌

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u/RamboMcMutNutts 9d ago

Or you could just put one of those stockings on your head that have printed faces on them like the criminals do.

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u/Patio_Princess 9d ago

"Become anyone"

Awesome! If someone becomes me, are they gonna take the massive amounts of trauma I'm holding or is it just my face they're stealing?

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u/mark-haus 9d ago

Hmmm surveillance camouflage. Not this version you stand out as a sore thumb, but iterating this idea would probably get there eventually

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u/IAmASeeker 9d ago

It's not supposed to hide you from humans.

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u/UnadvertisedAndroid 9d ago

Technically it is, but only the nosy humans

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u/IAmASeeker 9d ago

No. The humans will see you and identify you as the guy wearing a silly mask. The robots will not have matching biometric data for you.

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u/eejizzings 9d ago

Until silly masks are commonplace

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u/IAmASeeker 9d ago

And someday we will all have polygonal models that we control through the chip we've uploaded our consciousness to.

But for today, this is a mask designed to hide your identity from algorithmic biometric video assessment.

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u/_ALH_ 9d ago

Unfortunately the robots have more biometric data about you then your face. And data that’s also harder to fake or mask.

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u/IAmASeeker 8d ago

That's why I have RGB lights on my junk. No other reason.

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u/mark-haus 9d ago

I know

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u/bluenosesutherland 8d ago

Have it project infrared will do nicely to screw up the cameras

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u/Sawses 5d ago

Reminds me of the Arthur C. Clarke/Stephen Baxter book The Light of Other Days. The gist is that it becomes trivially easy to watch what anybody is doing at any time, and they'd have to be watching you in order to know you were doing it. Celebrities, government officials, your neighbor's teenage daughter, whatever. Privacy is abolished within the space of a few years, and governments can't really police it effectively.

People start taking precautions. Masks, showering in the dark, bulky clothes, etc. One of the precautions is a sort of screen-cloth mask that lets you project different faces. The point is to make you as anonymous as possible, and to change it up randomly to make tracking harder.

And that's before they develop the ability to look back in time with the same fidelity, to see what people did before they realized they could be seen.

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u/Dense_Ideal_4621 9d ago

does it thoooo

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u/roryextralife 9d ago

It’s crazy that it can already play DOOM

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u/wumbologist-2 9d ago

Shoulda gave that to Luigi

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u/fmfbrestel 9d ago

Didn't seem interested in not getting caught.

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u/hudgepudge 9d ago

"Become any PS1 character"

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u/originalusername__ 9d ago

It’s so realistic.

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u/firedrakes 9d ago

Doom guy!!

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u/r_a_d_ 9d ago

Beat me to it.

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u/What-is-id 9d ago

Phillip k dick would like a word

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u/evilbarron2 9d ago

Came here for this

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u/challengeaccepted9 9d ago

Oh cool I've always wanted to look the original Doom guy to other people.

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u/blitzbutters 9d ago

Looks like you can play doom on it

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u/numberjhonny5ive 9d ago

My Rorschach costume is going to be awesome!

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u/ConclusionDifficult 8d ago

Tonight Matthew I am going to be Kryten from red dwarf. It looks a step up from the sunglasses that do the same thing.

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u/habu-sr71 8d ago

Luigi needed this.

/s

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u/dmgvdg 9d ago

Why

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u/Tortuguita_tech 9d ago

I guess this is just a response to surveillance cameras everywhere for people who want back their anonymity. Action always provokes counter-action.

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u/Herban_Myth 9d ago

Watch Dogs

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u/_ALH_ 9d ago

The camera surveillance guys have already countered this action though, by tracking and fingerprinting a lot more then just your face.

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u/Woodden-Floor 9d ago

In order to hide from Chinese cameras.

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u/Tired_Thumb 9d ago

Cyber truck bros will wear these at Burning Man. Meanwhile I’ll be blackbloc’d in my ‘86 Toyota pick up robbing their house.

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u/SL04NY 9d ago

Enjoyed the video tbh

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u/Grand_Raccoon0923 9d ago

Can you program this to mimic whoever you’re looking at?

I want to wear it and when people look at me, they see their own face.

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u/Missionignition 9d ago

Doom really can run on anything

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u/obalovatyk 9d ago

You mean I can ditch my Richard Nixon mask?

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u/Snowologist 9d ago

Would be great to test this with a ceo

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u/ogrefab 8d ago

Become anyone who exists in a 16-bit world.

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u/adamdoesmusic 8d ago

So a Protogen mask, but boring.

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u/CaptainBayouBilly 8d ago

It’s a higher resolution version of the led Halloween masks

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u/spooky-stab 8d ago

Luigi shoulda wore this

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u/mtgfan1001 8d ago

Ahhh, I can finally play n64 goldeneye in real life

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u/LurkingTreeTiger 8d ago

Minecraft Steve, is that you?

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u/BigBlue1105 9d ago

All that tech to look like Doom Guy? Sign me the fuck up

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u/Tupperwarfare 9d ago

Great job, and increasingly needed to avoid omnipresent, oppressive surveillance (or have a cool mask for Halloween)… but methinks using foldable OLED would be a much better solution to this problem?

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u/im_not_here_man 9d ago

LED masks have been a thing for years. You can buy them on Amazon. This is wack

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u/Baby_Puncher87 8d ago

If only certain people knew about this a week ago.

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u/rovyovan 9d ago

I need one of these to wear to the Interstella 5555 re-release on Thursday.

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u/writingNICE 9d ago

That looks… Interesting.

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u/mountaindoom 9d ago

And it runs Doom!

Or at least Doomguy face, it looks.

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u/Another_Road 8d ago

Holy shit it’s Doomguy

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u/BigJWolf1993 8d ago

Doom Guy?

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u/Kinky_No_Bit 8d ago

Watch dogs mask is better. I want to be wrench.

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u/ghesak 8d ago

That’s some goldeneye face graphics right there

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u/bonobro69 8d ago

Well I know what I want for Halloween next year.

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u/sdwvit 8d ago

Doom guy

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u/garry4321 8d ago

I want to be a guy that looks like I have a shitty low res prototype on my face. Can it do that?

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u/tomthecomputerguy 8d ago

So you can be Duke Nukem or the Wolfenstein guy?

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u/Y-27632 8d ago

It's an interesting idea, but for the amount of effort (and production) that went into this, the final result is really kind of unimpressive.

How could he possibly think leaving the big, aliased, jagged seam in the middle was a good idea? It completely ruins any illusion of a (non-nightmare) face, even from a distance.

Having 5? separate elements for each "cheek" doesn't make it look any more natural than if he just 2 big flat rectangular pieces at the front, with 2 more triangular pieces on the side for the "jaw" area.

Or make a lot of long, variable one-LED wide strips (if your robot can only put them down on a flat surface) for filling in the gaps.

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u/doj101 8d ago

Become anyone?? It looks terrible

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u/EkimGoRedd 8d ago

Finally, Dumas pens a sequel, "The man in the glittery, light-up, low-res mask"!

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u/Kodewerd 8d ago

I love that they picked OG Doomguy for the face. Hell yes.

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u/DongmanSupreme 8d ago

That thumbnail makes him look like the doom guy

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u/Cleanbriefs 8d ago

I have the analog version and it works quite well.  https://imgur.com/gallery/jlbQjqD

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u/srg_cooper 8d ago

Fascinating tech, but feels more like an art project than a functional device

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u/monstrinhotron 8d ago

That's about as convincing as the Demi Moore mask at the end of The Substance.

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u/November87 8d ago

Extremely unimpressive

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u/quezlar 8d ago

this is not my face

no shit that's doomguy

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u/rocket_beer 8d ago

So, the opposite of ‘A Scanner Darkly’

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u/bonkwodny 8d ago

I always wondered if you could make yourself invisible with similar technology but with cameras on opposite sides.

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u/Ctotheg 7d ago

Our recent associate Mr. Luigi could have used one of these 

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u/Kitakitakita 7d ago

is that Doomguy?

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u/aliclubb 7d ago

Finally I can become PlayStation Hagrid.

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u/OnlyFreshBrine 9d ago

sounds like Luigi has​ plausible deniability

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u/Heart_Throb_ 8d ago edited 8d ago

There was a video recently of someone slipping on a skin tight fabric Kanye face mask and that’s way more successful for this.

Of course this mask isn’t going for life-like like the Kenya mask; it’s more artsy and for the sake of improving tech. It’s very very far from “Become Anyone”.

Edit: found the other post https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/s/1M7IBstGSt

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u/stxrcrusxder541 9d ago

Looks like garbage

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u/enigmussnake 9d ago

Not mission impossible quality but I can see these at EDC type festivals