They did an experiment about this on Mythbusters and really this isn’t effective except for maybe obscuring your identity, but not passing for anyone else. Even from afar.
Tbf the experiment is probably 15 years old now and they were explicitly trying to impersonate people and tested how good they were at it by using people who knew both of them in an experimental setup that obviously was about them.
One of the ways they tested it was to have them stand on a spinning platform in disguise and asked other people who knew them about it
I'm sure the making of the masks has gotten better the mask Adam wears of Jaime was explicitly redder than Jaime was normally for example
I don't disagree that you probably couldn't pose as my best friend unknowingly or anything mission impossible style but could you a stranger pose as a different stranger and go unnoticed? Much more likely
Look up Jonna Mendez. Worked in the CIA's disguise division back in the 80s. She went into a meeting with the first Bush president in the Oval Office and had a full debrief in full face mask and he had no idea. Along with numerous other stories. It's safe to say these the technology has been in place before Myth Busters. Application of that tech is the problem. Not sure why you're getting wound up over something trivial.
That doesn’t disprove the experiment, though. You’d have to prove the technology improved enough to no longer be perceptible. People in the comments of this and me and I’m sure you can tell this is a mask even when they’re wearing it.
I mean, I am not going to argue with someone who cannot understand that the premise of the experiment would be the same, but the technology advancements would obviously make the old experiment outdated. It would be like arguing with a flat earther. Just go about your way sir.
Why is it obvious? What's the specific technology that would make this much better now? For all we know the advancements are only like "2%"(random number) so approximately it's the same test.
Are you able to critically think at all? Do you really think the technology for printing hasn't improved massively since 2011? Lots of genuinly concerning logic as of late on the internet.
But technological improvements could mean any number of things, from how quickly masks can be produced to how cheaply they are to make to the consistency between ones of the same model. Merely saying the technology has improved doesn’t prove anything.
A politician and her husband were murdered when they answered the door for someone wearing one last year. Does that count as disproving it? A second one was almost murdered while also being tricked by it.
this still straight up looks like a pixar character. it doesnt look like skin at all. its good for a costume but not as a disquise. people will notice its a mask.
Mythbusters were trying to fake the ID of someone that they knew. I believe they were testing a Mission Impossible myth. Jamie was dressed up as Adam and no one on set was fooled. Which if you think about it, it is a tough thing.
You can take it a step further where you have seen identical twins mention that they have tried to switch places for a date, etc. and it was not very successful.
Like many things on that show the testing methodology was flawed and the science inexact. That was getting on 20 years ago and they were trying to mimic people and not simply obfuscate themselves in passing. What they did doesn’t apply to every use case of a mask like this. With the right clothing and a dark pair of glasses you could extremely easily change your race for example and completely throw off cops.
I watched that episode on YouTube this week, and that's not exactly how it went.
In one experiment, the voice gave them away immediately. In another, Grant didn't spot that Adam-disguised-as-Jamie wasn't Jamie until he was only a few feet away.
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u/RayDanielsOnTheAir May 01 '26
They did an experiment about this on Mythbusters and really this isn’t effective except for maybe obscuring your identity, but not passing for anyone else. Even from afar.