Stopping a .22 at half the normal velocity isn't a great feat until one considers the membrane that was used to stop it was thinner than a piece of scotch tape. What it lacks at this stage is any kind of impact retardent, making future generations of this perhaps the perfect material to make a tent out of unless a plate or frame is intended to be worn under it.
The huge advantage that the liquid viscous armor concept from BAE has is that it functions as its own trauma plate; rounds that impact shear thickening fluids (like the BAE and other prototypes can do) disperse the impact across a broad surface. What I've read, though, is that theoretically shear thickening fluids can be defeated with a high enough velocity, which can cause them to shatter.