Okay, it’s a mask, but as far as I can ascertain, this happened. One imagines the CIA is happy to leak disguise technology from 30 years ago. Who knows what they have today. Of course, donning a mask does not infuse a person with language skills or cultural empathy. For that, you just need to hand a suitcase of cash to a person who grew up in another language and culture. The only thing that might have changed about that technology is the suitcase.
Mark Zuckerberg (yes, it turns out he has a Facebook page) has taken a lot of heat for this “virtual tour” of Puerto Rico. I don’t know, it reminds me of Google Street View with Mystery Science Theater cartoons up front cracking insane jokes. Except that on MST, the characters got the jokes. Nonetheless, I did get more of a sense of the scale of destruction from the images than I had before.
It also reminded me of this.
https://www.truthorfiction.com/bushvacation/