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This has nothing to do with Google Glass. The article describes an augmented reality system. Glass is not AR -- you don't look through it. It's just a display that is unobtrusively visible in a small part of your vision.

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I don't see why somebody can't build an AR app using Google Glass.

The way Glass sits on your face would not allow this, danellis is correct.

Because you'd need hard AR to do dynamic cookie-increasing, and neither Google Glass nor anything else on the horizon can do that. Michael Abrash explains it better than I can:

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/why-you-wont-see-hard-...

Maybe if you bought two glasses and flipped one and put them on a frame? The user could "learn" to look through it just like one would use bifocals.

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