YUDAI MASAKI

Undergraduate Student
UEC Media Design Lab
The University of Electro-Communications

Familiar, Unfamiliar Face — installation view

This is an experience of rebuilding your own face.

A photo of your face is turned into a 3D model with Gaussian Splatting. Wearing a headset, you face this model—its eyes, nose, and mouth missing—and search a table of physical parts, mixed with those of strangers, to put your face back together.

Recalling yourself in the mirror, or in photos taken with friends, I hope this work offers a chance to see anew the face that has stayed with you—through past, present, and future.

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Upcoming
INTER BEE IGNITION × DCEXPO, Chiba, Japan, 2026
Laval Virtual, Laval, France, 2027
Exhibition
Interverse Virtual Reality Challenge, Toyama, Japan, 2026
Award
Mamoru Hosoda Prize, Interverse Virtual Reality Challenge, 2026
Laval Virtual Prize, Interverse Virtual Reality Challenge, 2026
Unity Award, Interverse Virtual Reality Challenge, 2026
DCEXPO Selection, Interverse Virtual Reality Challenge, INTER BEE IGNITION × DCEXPO, 2026

Familiar, Unfamiliar Face

Interactive VR Installation, 2026