MR5ive Issues Recall
The popular WorldVu augmented reality glasses, produced by Japanese electronics giant MR5ive, face an immediate recall as MR5ive deals with the fallout from the recent digital attacks on WorldVu users.

WorldVu, which offered wearers an information layer over what they saw, was the most popular of the new -- and still buggy -- augmented reality devices, due primarily to its low cost. But hackers proved able to easily defeat the minimal security on the glasses, and began a campaign of adding misleading, false, even hallucinatory images to the augmentation display. Three people have died in accidents related to the attacks.

The recall is expected to cost MR5ive over a €300 million. Its stock tumbled in after-hours trading, and analysts consider a hostile takeover likely.

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