the new appointee, anthony scaramucci, a former wall street financier, denied there had been tensions over his appointment. the victim of an armed robbery in which oj simpson was jailed has told us which oj simpson was jailed has told us why he says it is incheon should be freed early. —— oj simpson. the world health organization has said the cholera outbreak in yemen is out of control, with over 300 thousand people affected. the country has been racked by civil war and an intervention by saudi—led forces for the past two years. as a result government health services have collapsed. coming up shortly is newswatch, but now on bbc news, it's time for click. there are sharks all around me!

virtual reality. it's action packed. it's immersive... argh! there's a mouse! it's terrifying. argh! it's collaborative... laughter. it's a knockout! ok, you hit me. it's... oh, god. it's frozen. it's... frozen. it's fun, but it's not going to change the world... it wouldn't fit in as much as, say, my phone would. it wouldn't fit in... it's such a shame, it's so annoying. it's annoying. not really what you want to hear when you are talking about vr.

especially since the technology has actually been around since the 1960s. this helmet is from the mid—1990s. but it wouldn't be the first bit of amazing looking tech to simply fade into novelty. one of the problems is the media goes mad over it and then everything gets overhyped, not that we would be guilty of course... this is amazeballs! but the truth is, sometimes stuff gets overblown and the people who buy the thing end up getting disappointed by the thing. well, this week, the bbc, in partnership with ipsos mori, has published research into the reality of virtual reality. 16 ordinary people were given samsung gear vr headsets for three months, and asked to use them in their free time at home. and for any long—term observers of tech, the results probably aren't surprising. let's start with the sheer faff. actually finding your headset in the first place, it might be shoved in a drawer or somewhere, under your bed, dust it off,

it might be dirty, it might not be totally clean. getting your phone and putting it into the headset, if you have a mobile—driven vr headset, and making sure that the phone has high battery because that will often be drained very quickly. finding a piece of content to actually watch, the phone might overheat and the experience will then stop. you might be a family, friends or flatmates pranking you as you are doing it so you will feel self—conscious. your hair might be messed up, or your make up, whatever. and all of those various barriers come to be quite significant behavioural hurdles to get people to do this. these things just aren't ready for prime time yet. they are not easy to use and they are not easy to share. for example, as soon as i take this off my head, it switches off to save power which means i cannot get something going and then give it

to someone else to enjoy. it will switch off and they have to navigate to the content all over again themselves. it means i've ended up putting a sticker over the sensor so it does not know when it's been taken off, which is stupid! look, a doggy! there's really no argument that vr can blow your mind. i'm on a roller—coaster! look, i can go down! but after those initial experiences, keeping people interested is another huge problem. once they are exhausting the key experiences, the novelty experiences around the roller—coaster rides, and the horror experiences, those kinds of things, then their enthusiasm ebbs away quite quickly. and one of the reasons why people get bored is that there was not much new to watch. with vr content, i think there is a bit of a chicken and egg situation. obviously, to encourage more people to buy vr headsets, it would be good to have more and more vr content. but it costs a lot of money to make and you don't necessarily

want to invest in making the content unless you are confident a lot of people will see it. so, it is difficult to put a lot of money into something if you do not know that people will buy the headset but then to convince them to buy the headset, maybe you have to do that? it's a problem that's also beset blu—ray, ak, and sd tv. we've moved incredibly far in the last two is in terms of what has been produced, but there was a lot of interdependent things here. there is consumer uptake of headsets, technology needs to be betterfor production tools to produce that. all of these things are happening at once and incredibly fast, but not fast enough. this might explain why last week facebook cut the price of their oculus headset for the second time. it's a lot to shell out for something that mightjust end up being a novelty. by reducing its prices, oculus will probably appeal to more people who were already considering buying the headset, but i'm not sure it will convince many people to buy it, to try it.

it is still a lot. it still costs about the same as a games console. and it's notjust the price of the headset itself, you need to have a pretty high—end machine to run these things on. and even sony, the company that provides a high—end playstation 4 with its vr headsets, which has sold 1 million of the things, told us not to get too excited about it. i think that, in the last six months to a year, we have seen a little bit of overhyping of the category out there. certainly not by ourselves. we saw this as the start of a very long process of bringing vr into the mainstream. you will see a lot more technology innovation. i think content makers, game makers, and others, including folks making television programmes, they are really only just starting to learn what the tools are to make really good for your content.

everybody knows it will take some time before we produce really good and compelling content, but we are inventing a new medium here and that is obviously going to take time. but unless we start somewhere, we will never do it. so we need to wait a few years while you guys get it right, so there is something worth watching? hmm... laughter you cannot develop anything unless it is in conjunction with the audience too, say if we have no audience, we would never be able to create something and make it really work for them. this robot has been built to detect landmines, and sadly, sometimes he finds them. understandably, some can

be expensive. but he has been made on the cheap. made with a raspberry pi computer, this is £50 a pop. every time it makes a good move, it essentially gives itself positive reinforcement in terms of trying back again. if it is negative, does not do well, then that is negative reinforcement. it does not try that type of motion, reinforcing it by giving it good and bad feedback. not only could it potentially save lives only could it potentially save lives on earth, it could also be used to further research in space. we want to use this to manufacture robots in space. rather than changing the design of the robot on earth where

we don't have the environment it will be deployed, we can actually just trek the material into space and manufactured the robots on the spot. —— take. currently, it gets tied after three hours. so they want to put solar panels on the back. they also want to automate them so swarms of them working together can quickly cover large areas. this robot is good at going through sand. notjust landmine detection, but farming, anywhere you don't want an expensive robot interacting with dirty environments, this robot is good for that.

i have had a stutter since i was six. it doesn't get in the way of things i do. although it is not curable, he has found a way to treat it as best as he can through virtual reality. i hope to aim to benefit people who stutter. he is using a headset which can track eye movement, something which can be

severely affected when someone is stuttering. the eyes came close, flickr, adjust on a place. —— flicker. it can work as therapy for those who start. he is able to suggest similar exercises and techniques, and in the future, he hopes his research may be used by speech therapists in treatment. when a person is in the environment, they will see an animated avatar. they can talk to them about a certain topic like a favourite holiday. at that time i will be tracking their eyes. i will advise what to do and how to improve speech as well. gareth has previously used a more

basic headset to improve confidence by simulating an entire audience for them to speak in front of. although he is only addressing the eye movement and not speech directly, he hopes this research will improve the confidence of those who stutter, and indeed, those who don't. and that is it for me short click. the full—length one is on line right now. thank you for watching. we will see you soon. hello and welcome to newswatch

with me, samira amehd. coming up: newpresenters features prominantly on its list of best paid onair stuff this week, but are they really worth the money? and how will the bbc deal with the gap in pay revealed between men and women? wednesday was a difficult day for the bbc. as ordered by the government, against its wishes, the corporation published the names and salaries of all of its onair employees paid more than £150,000 a year. this led to some uncomfortable interviews with those unused to being on the receiving end of questions. what do i do? on paper, absolutely nothing that justifies that huge amount of money and, if you compare me with lots of other people, say a doctor saves a chid's live 01’ say a doctor saves a chid's live ora say a doctor saves a chid's live 01’ a nurse say a doctor saves a chid's live or a nurse who comforts a dying person. would you do the job for less money? of course i would. i've never for a second doubted how lucky i am to work in there and i'm

just sorry the bbc is really hurting today. john humphrys and jeremy vine there, who were the two leading news presenters on the list, earning over £600,000 and £700,000 earning over £600,000 and £700 , 000 respectively. they were followed by the likes of huw edwards on more than £550,000. andrew marr earning over £400,000. fiona bruce with more than £350,000 and laura kuenssberg with over £200,000, who was in same range as andrew neil, as wasjon soppel. many bbc outlets indulged in what some viewers felt was washing their dirty linen in public. including breakfast, with this really surreal paper review, presented awkwardly by on—the—list naga munchetty and not—on—the—list charlie stayt. not every day we make the front page of the sun, but there you go. the figures are out there. many of the papers looking at some of the detail and some of the detail and some

of the detail and some of the discrepancies highlighted. the daily mail saying mutiny. bitter recrimination at the politically correct bbc as this gulf between men and women is revealed. so that's us, newswatch, broadcast during breakfast, showing a clip of breakfast, featuring a newspaper headline about breakfast. apologies for adding to the self absorption which on wednesday prompted this from rowena kay... and another twitter user called jerome thought... others felt the difference between men's and women's revealed was poured over to excess with helen blamires asking...