http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archiv.../makeup/374929/

I'm quite sure that by the 2050s, 2060s, and 2070s, facial recognition software will be as unimpressed by Dazzle facepaint as radar was unimpressed by Dazzle warship paint by Vietnam.

Especially if you are able to make a composite rendering from multiple sensor sources, like motion and ultrasound sensors that care nothing about the "color" of an object.

Thankfully, the luchadore mask is the gift that never stops giving when it comes to secret identities.

the physical Mask spell has become one of the more important Spells for my Spellslingers

with a Dance in disguise
Medicineman

Security is always an arms-race. Cameras and image processing software improve and so do counter measures. In SR you have phyiscal mask, facial sculpt, nanopaste, facial masks, false front, etc.

Personally, that's the kind of stuff where I consider that any decent Shadowrunner knows the current way to escape the surveillance and don't bother players with it, nor do I try to find 201x explanations to how stuff works in 207x

It always depends on the situation. On a normal day in the sprawl, you won't be standing out, with a simple breather / airfilter and a pair of display-glasses.

My current group tends to go the whole "skimask" route, at least when pulling an overt job. Can't beat the classics. (Though you can improve them with armored fabrics and densiplast inserts.)

Almost Human had an interesting idea on defeating cameras Some criminals had a spray that was hyper reflective in the infrared range. Spraying their faces with it resulted in CCD security cameras displaying their faces as unrecognizable blobs of light, while to human eyes they appeared to be merely sweaty.

My 4E Missions chararacter never appeared in public without nanopaste disguises on. Perhaps three-four people have seen his real face in his Missions career. He's also had reconstructive cosmetic face surgery done in the past.


-k

Which has basis in reality: it's actually remarkably difficult to filter infrared light on the camera. A lot of it is actually done by software.

I liked the show, a pity it didn't get another season. But, hey its fox and they never give shows a chance.

Yeah. :\

Realistically, this already doesn't work. But in my games, this is absolutely functional, and why all of my shadowrunners dress like they're members of 80s hair bands.

I believe a year from now we will say the same thing about Gotham.