*These aren't Google's chic and sleek "annotated reality" gizmos, these are big ugly headmount clunkers with some very interesting augmentation capabilities, to wit facial recognition and gesture controls.
http://blog.laptopmag.com/viking-ar-goggles
The protoype was able to perform some very basic facial recognition. When we looked at Johannes Lundberg, the senior engineer responsible for the device, a box appeared around his head which correctly showed his name. However, when we looked at another both-goer who was not listed in the system, the software incorrectly identified him as someone else, rather than simply reporting that he was not in the database.
The Viking prototype AR goggles will never come to market. Instead, Brilliantservice is looking to partner with a hardware developer who can work with the company to design and manufacture a headset that uses the Viking OS. The device was used is meant as a reference design, but not an endpoint. Lundberg showed us a non-working headset that looked much more like a set of sunglasses than goggles.