Reminded me a lot of Animal Superpowers by Chris Woebken and Kenichi Okada (2007) https://chriswoebken.com/ANIMAL-SUPERPOWERS
Kenichi's Wide Eyes: https://web.archive.org/web/20180223030034/http://www.kenich...
And lastly, Meiwa Denki, a Japanese artist and performer who made some beautiful head+eye gear experiments on a similar vein, which I had the fortune to try in his Tokyo studio back in 2008… but can't find any online reference for :/