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[08:00:01] IVAN WATSON, HOST: I'm Ivan Watson in Hong Kong. Welcome to News Stream.

Israeli police are investigating the brutal killing of a bystander after a gunman opened fire at a bus station.

Plus, a slow moving typhoon unleashes floods and landslides in the Philippines, forcing thousands from their homes.

And a closer look at Oculus. Can virtual reality change the future of journalism?

A bus station shootout in Southern Israel is the latest incident in the outbreak of violence that's shaking Israelis and Palestinians. In this

case, police say the attacker was an Arab Bedouin. Authorities say he shot and killed an Israeli soldier before being killed by security. They're

also investigating the role witnesses played in Sunday's attack in Beirshiba (ph).

That's because an Eritrean migrant was also killed. Police apparently mistook him for a second gunman. And after he was shot, a crowd of people

closed in and started beating and kicking him.

We're told investigators have been ordered to find and bring in those witnesses.

Police say the man who was actually behind the shooting was from the town of Hora (ph) in Southern Israel, which is an Arab Bedouin community.

For the latest, CNN's Oren Liebermann joins us now from Jerusalem.

Now, Oren, what more can you tell us about this Eritrean bystander and what role eyewitnesses may have played in his death?

OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Ivan, as you mentioned there, there are two separate stories, both happening within

moments of each other during this attack. As you said, police say an Arab Bedouin attacker went into the central bus station in the southern Israeli

city of Beirshiba (ph), shot an Israeli soldier at pointblank range, took his M16 and opened fire in the bus station, sending at least 11 people to

the hospital.

Police, or security forces, shot and killed him, but the story didn't end there. Police say security guard mistook an Eritrean migrant for a

second attacker, shot him and then a crowd surrounds him, starts kicking and beating him. Police say he was taken to the hospital where he later

died.

Now, what we're learning about is what happened there. Police say they're looking for those crowd -- that sort of beating, kicking and

shouting at the Eritrean migrant, certainly exacerbating his injuries there. Police say they're looking for those to charge them. They see this

as very serious.

We're learning only a bit about this Eritrean migrant. He was a fairly young man. Their Sheva (ph), especially the central bus station

where a lot of these migrants congregate, because it's one of the easiest places for them to get to, tens of thousands of African migrants here in

Israel, most of them Eritrean, a good number of Sudanese as well.

WATSON: Now Oren, it's not that long ago that we had a case of an Israeli who was apprehended after stabbing a fellow Israeli who he mistook

as a Palestinian. You've got this ongoing drum beat of killings going on, of stabbings between Palestinians and Israelis. It's very disturbing. Are

there any efforts whatsoever for the Israeli and Palestinian leadership to try to sit down and try to negotiate a way to calm down the tensions and

this latest spasm of violence?

LIEBERMANN: Well, certainly everything you just mentioned there contributes to the tension and how on edge everyone here is, because of

that tension, because of the attacks, the violence, the clashes. And for all of the statements Israeli leaders and Palestinian leaders have made to

us, have made to the media, it seems they're certainly not making any statements to each other. And that's where the international community is

trying to step in. Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and

even the King of Jordan King Abdullah to try to get some sort of dialogue going here.

Right now, I say perhaps a little cynically, it's more of the conflict between the leaders, which is to say Israeli leaders blame the Palestinians

for incitement, Palestinian leaders blame the Israelis for incitement. And there has been no meaningful dialogue, perhaps no dialogue at all, between

the leaders themselves as the International community tries to get involved.

I don't think anybody is too hopeful, especially not John Kerry, that there's going to be a two state solution any time now, but even to get

these sides talking a little bit could ease some of the tensions and could put everyone a little more at ease here, which is sorely needed on the

ground right now.

WATSON: All right, that's Oren Liebermann live from Jerusalem. Thanks very much, Oren.

For more on what's behind the surge in violence, head to our white site, you'll find complete coverage of the escalating tensions in Israel

and in the Palestinian territories.

Now on to China. The Chinese President Xi Jinping, he's headed to the UK for his first ever state visit there. Britain has been pushing to

improve relations with China, something Mr. Xi praised as a visionary and strategic choice in a Reuters interview.

The visit is expected to focus largely on trade. President Xi's visit comes as China sees its slowest economic growth since 2009.

Government data shows gross domestic product grew by 6.9 percent in the third quarter. That's better, slightly better, then economists had

predicted. But it's still a slowdown from the 7 percent posted in the first half of the year.

Some observers are voicing concern that official data is not entirely accurate and may be attempting to paint a somewhat rosy picture of the

state of the Chinese economy.

I spoke with our Asia-Pacific editor Andrew Stevens about what we can glean from these new growth numbers.

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[08:06:03] ANDREW STEVENS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: There's a couple of takeaways. The headline number, Ivan, is that growth is better

than we had expected. And put that in context with the fact that this was the first time we've seen the economic activity chart, if you like, since

the big stockmarket crash. So, in fact, the economy has held up pretty well, because there's real fears that the confidence will be knocked, and

that would knock on to the overall performance of the economy.

It's still the same sectors which are in trouble, which is exports, which is the real estate sector, and which is manufacturing. They are all

showing weakness.

But the economy itself is being held up, which Beijing will really like to see, by consumer spending. And this is what Beijing wants to do.

They're trying to move the economic model away from manufacturing, away from exports, to more consumer spending.

We are seeing better than expected consumer spending numbers. They will like that, which is a good start. But I think still this is an

economy that's growing for a Chinese perspective still very, very slowly.

WATSON: Though, any other country would celebrate if they had these kind of growth figures.

You know, the last time -- it was just a little while ago that the Chinese stock market really tumbled -- you mentioned it. And that sent

ripple effects around the world. What are the risks that this latest news of a slowdown could hit people's pension funds, could hit their stock

market investments?

STEVENS: No doubts that that is what has been driving -- that the impact, if you like, on pension funds around the world. What's been

happening in China, specifically these numbers, probably not much at all, because if you look at the local market reaction -- look at these numbers

here. You're seeing Nikkei is down, Shanghai is down, Hong Kong is flat.

So there hasn't really been much of a reaction at all. U.S. futures at the moment, as we speak, are about flat as well.

So, these numbers in isolation probably not, Ivan. But China still remains one of the biggest, if not the biggest factor in the stock market

performance globally. How bad is the China slowdown going to get if people start to worry -- and we saw that in the summer that the global investment

community started to worry just about how weak China was and a big, big selloff around the world. That can still happen again, because if you look

at the longer run expectations for the Chinese economy, it is going to continue to weaken from 6.9 percent -- we're talking about perhaps 6.5

percent next year.

So, it depends how that growth looks -- the makeup of that growth, if you like. That is what will decide how markets deal with the China story.

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WATSON: Important context from CNN's Asia-Pacific editor Andrew Stevens.

Now later this month, the annual meeting of the Communist Party will be watched closely for signed that Beijing may be ready to intervene more

aggressively to boost growth.

You're watching CNN News Stream. Coming up, engulfed by water, disastrous flooding is wrecking havoc across the Philippines as a powerful

typhoon creates more misery.

And, she's known as Mama Merkel among Syrian refugees, but at home the German Chancellor is being criticized for opening the door to so many

people.

Plus, outrage in India; a string of child rape cases is prompting calls for authorities to do more. Details right after this break.

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[08:12:03] WATSON: You're watching News Stream. And you're looking at a visual version of all these Tories we've got in the show today.

We've already told you about an attack at an Israeli bus station and the killing of a bystander in the aftermath. And later we will check for

the forecast for the Philippines where a typhoon has caused extensive damage and is still dumping heavy rain.

But now we turn to the uproar in India over the rapes of two little girls.

Protests and outrage on the streets of New Delhi after police say two very young girls were raped. Two teens have been arrested in connection

with one of the attacks. Police the suspects have confessed to abducting and raping a 2-year-old girl.

In a separate attack, three people have been arrested in connection with the rap of a 5-year-old girl.

For the latest on this disturbing story, CNN's Mallika Kapur joins us now from Mumbai.

Now Mallika, what more can you tell us about these cases and about the protests that they seem to be triggering?

MALLIKA KAPUR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Ivan, we got some new information from the police earlier today. And they have

confirmed to CNN that they were able to make these two key arrests on Sunday night. They have arrested two teenagers, one at 17 years old, one

is 16 years old. And they've arrested them in connection with the rape of this young two-and-a-half year old little girl.

We've also got some more details about the circumstances surrounding the incident. It took place on Friday night. The little girl was playing

close to her home. And there was a farmer outage. Basically the lights went out for about 15 minutes or so, and it was in those 15 minutes that

these two teenage boys picked the girl up, they took her on their motorbike and abducted her, and took her away to an area close by.

It was hours later that her parents and her neighbors, a family members found this little girl. And they found her dumped in a park close

by, when they found her bruised, beaten and bleeding. And they alerted the police.

And it has to be said the Delhi police did act fairly quickly. They said they interviewed more than 250 people. And that led them to these two

important arrests on Sunday night.

But, yes, of course, this is a very, very disturbing incident. It came on the same day that another 5-year-old girl was raped in New Delhi as

well. And both these incidents, Ivan, came within one week of yet another rape case involving a child, a 4-year-old girl was raped on October 9.

So three gruesome incidents, horrible incidents of young girls, children, being raped in New Delhi within one week. And of course this has

triggered protests in Delhi, a huge sense of outrage, of fear and of shock that incidents like this can continue to happen in India despite the fact

that India has really tried to move the security of women and girls up on its national agenda over the last couple of years, Ivan.

[08:15:08] WATSON: Well, tell us about those efforts, Mallika, what are the India authorities trying to do to battle this rash of sexual

assault cases, what is civil society trying to do to try to put a stop to this?

KAPUR: Well, there have been a number of measures. You know, when you look at the legal front, it was after the Nerbhia (ph) rape case back

in 2012 that the government decided to set up special fast track courts, to use these fast track courts to try cases like this, to try cases involving

rape and sexual violence. And the government has been doing that, especially if we go back again to the case of Nerbhia (ph). You know, that

trial was wrapped up within seven months.

Now that may not seem very quick in other parts of the world, but in India, you know, court cases can take years to complete -- 10, 15, even 20

years. So for court cases to wrap up within seven months, that is a big step for India.

India also strengthened laws against rape cases, a major punishment for rapists much more severe. Nowadays if a raped person dies as a result

of a rape, then the person, the rapist gets the death penalty.

And there have been a number of other measures, too, there's been huge pressure, huge pressure on the police force to be more sensitive. There

have been drives to sensitize people, awareness. But yet when you have incidents like these -- you know people of civil society are left shaking

their heads saying, you know, where are we going with all of this? If there is such a huge effort taking place, why aren't we seeing a

difference? Why are we still picking up the newspapers every day and reading about cases like this?

WATSON: Serious questions being asked by civil society in India. That's Mallika Kapur live from Mumbai. Thank you very, very much.

Now coming up next on News Stream, Typhoon Koppu unleashes heavy downpours across the Philippines. How much more rain is in store? Our

meteorologist has the latest.

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[08:20:47] WATSON: Welcome back to CNN's News Stream, broadcasting live from Hong Kong where you can see the weather is calm and clear this

evening over Victoria Harbor. But moving to the Philippines, those islands are not so fortunate.

In the Philippines this hour, tens of thousands of people are huddling inside emergency shelters as a powerful typhoon keeps lashing the region.

Typhoon Koppu made landfall Sunday, dumping a huge amount of rainfall. The storm is churning ever so slowly, triggering floods in one own after

another. At least three people have been killed.

Koppu is expected to bring much more rain to the Philippines before it moves on.

Chad Myers is tracking this storm for us. Chad, what more can you tell us?

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: This storm is going to turn back to the right and hit Luzon from the other side, Ivan. This couldn't really be

worse.

There's -- other than the storm sitting over Luzon Island itself that I don't see how this could be any more catastrophic when it comes to

flooding.

We have to realize, there have been 20, 20 category four or five storms now that's either at super typhoon or slightly less. And this storm

was 260 kilometers per hour when it made landfall in the Philippines over the weekend.

And I don't even believe we're seeing the worst pictures, because we can't get the pictures out of the hardest hit places.

Now there is some good news. This side, this northern part, and central part of Luzon not as populated as, let's say, Manila or Subay, or

the areas down there. But there is still a lot of rain coming down in these mountains.

We're talking about 3,000 meter high mountains and the rain on top, a half a meter deep, has to run downhill eventually.

There's the storm now off the west coast, but forecasts to turn to the right and come back at the northern tip of the Island.

Look, we're already seeing some spots at 446 millimeters of rainfall so far. And it may rain for another 48 hours before it finally stops.

Taiwan may be some of the effect of the storm, but it will be really not be a super typhoon -- it probably won't even be a typhoon at that

point, because we have really knocked the stuffing out of the storm with the mountains here across the northern sections of the Philippines.

Now this is not the same big storm like Tacloban got just a couple of years ago, because it's the population density that we saw there. But this

is still a significant weather maker that we'll be getting pictures now for, I believe, what seems like it'll be weeks before we really get the

hardest hit areas even started to get put back together, those pictures now showing the flooding.

But that wind, 260 kilometers per hour, Ivan, you can't imagine what they wind will do to a town or to a city, or for that matter, to anything

there. When it blows, it'll take the roof right off that. We know that many of these areas have already picked up a half a meter. I suspect

eventually we'll get some numbers around one meter deep of water that has to run off -- Ivan.

WATSON: All right. Meteorologist Chad Myers with the update.

And CNN will bring more updates as we learn more about the extent of the damage in those storm struck regions of the Philippines.

Now, let's turn to South Korea, that's where many say it's difficult for people in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community to be

open about their sexuality. Kathy Novak met one man who has decided to come out to his family right here on CNN. And he's doing it to try to

raise awareness.

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KATHY NOVAK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Micky Kim and Tony Ruse are business partners running this recording studio in Seoul, they're also

happily married. They got hitched in California two years ago, but Kim tells his family a very different story.

MICKY KIM, HID HOMOSEXUALITY FROM FAMILY: OK, I have a girlfriend. It's been a year. I create these fake stories to cover up.

NOVAK: When he interned at a big company, he says he also lied to his bosses.

KIM: They don't really know what gay is. And I was afraid I might lose my job.

[08:25:00] NOVAK: He says it's an extremely stressful way to live.

In this conservative society, it's still relatively unusual to meet an openly gay South Korean. In a poll, the Pew Research Center reported the

majority of people surveyed find homosexuality unacceptable, just 18 percent find it acceptable.

Opposition to this year's pride parade was so fierce, organizers were forced to change the date.

"The bible states that homosexuality is a sin," says this protester.

Confused young people are running away from home and turning up at the crisis center where transgender counselor Edhi Park works.

"These adolescence don't get any information from school or from their community," she says. "So they think they've contracted a disease."

That is a feeling Micky Kim remembers well.

KIM: I sometimes felt really suicidal as well, because, OK, why am I like this? I know no one who is like this. Maybe I'm crazy. I'm mentally

sick."

NOVAK: These days, he's more comfortable in his own skin and is out to his friends and co-workers if not to his family.

He believes society is slowly changing, but Kim and his husband have installed security cameras just in case others aren't so comfortable with

their relationship and want to express that opposition violently.

They're still waiting for the day when they can proudly admit their much more than just business partners.

Kathy Novak, CNN, Seoul.

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WATSON: Now take a look on this map. According to the campaign group Freedom to Marry, no countries in Asia have legalized same-sex marriage.

This year, Ireland became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage through a popular vote. And a month later, in June, the U.S. Supreme Court

ruled that no state can ban same-sex couples from marrying.

You're watching News Stream. And coming up, the issue that has German Chancellor Angela Merkel losing support even among members of her own

party. Stay with us.

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[08:30:34] WATSON: I'm Ivan Watson in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines.

Police say the man behind a shooting at a bus station in Southern Israel on Sunday was an Arab Bedouin. They say he killed an Israeli

soldier before he was shot dead by police. A bystander from Eritrea also died. Police say a security guard mistook him for a second attacker, as did

other witnesses who were seen beating him after he was shot.

U.S. officials say a coalition airstrike has killed the leader of an al Qaeda linked group in Syria. According to the Pentagon, Sanafi al

Nasser (ph) was the highest ranking member of the Khorasan Group. He was killed last Thursday.

Typhoon Koppu is now blamed for at least three deaths in the Philippines. Around 70,000 people have been forced from their homes.

Widespread flooding and landslides are complicating rescue efforts. The storm is forecast to stay in the region for a few more days.

A UNHCR spokesman tells CNN that 10,000 refugees are stranded in Serbia this hour following new border restrictions recently imposed farther

west in Europe. We were told these new limits have created bottlenecks on Croatia's borders with Slovenia and Serbia. UNHCR warns these migrants are

facing shortages of aid and shelter.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seeing a drop in support over her open door migrant policy. Fears of an overwhelming refugee influx are also

fueling anti-migrant protests in Dresden. Atika Shubert has more.

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ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): They call her Mama Merkel. For some, she is the embodiment of European wealth and generosity,

the leader who opened the doors for Syrian refugees to Germany and beyond.

But for her harshest critics, Mama Merkel is a withering dismissal of weak leadership in the face of a crisis that threatens to end Europe's free

borders. We took to the streets of the capital to find out what Germans really think of Mama Merkel.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She just said that everybody's welcome. That's good.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I come from New Zealand, where we're not taking too many refugees in, we're actually really -- we're in great admiration of

what she's done.

SHUBERT: Really?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And how many people she's opened the doors for.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The idea behind it of course is to help, which is always good. But I don't think it's a good idea to tell the people to come

over, we want you, you know, and then after four weeks, we start to close down.

What's the idea behind it? So there doesn't seem to be a plan.

SHUBERT (voice-over): That concern has dropped her popularity to its lowest point in recent years. For a chancellor that's been in power for 10

years and possibly hoping for another term, that is not good news.

The problem: too many refugees. Germany now expects as many as a million to apply for asylum this year alone. Up to 10,000 a day are

crossing the border into Germany.

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SHUBERT (voice-over): Many initially applauded her warm welcome but with school gymnasiums, festival tents and churches across the country now

overwhelmed, many are wondering how the country will cope.

Merkel insists she is coming up with solutions, devoting $6 billion to refugee housing and integration, proposing transit zones in Turkey, Hungary

and Greece to slow down the number of refugees. In the meantime, however, Mama Merkel may find Germany is not prepared to provide such a warm welcome

anymore.

Atika Shubert, CNN, Berlin.

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WATSON: A newly elected mayor in Germany just suffered a serious attack, apparently for her position on the refugee issue. Henriette Reker

was stabbed in the neck while campaigning on election day Saturday. The suspect is in custody. Police say he told them he disapproved of Reker's

support for refugees. She won the election for mayor of Cologne.

You're watching News Stream. Still ahead, virtual reality isn't just for games. How a new headset could transform the way we communicate.

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[08:36:31] WATSON: Welcome back to News Stream. I'm Ivan Watson.

Gamers are getting ready for virtual reality to shake things up. The Oculus Rift is one of several headsets due to start shipping early next

year. The Facebook owned company has not yet said how much the device will cost. Our senior media correspondent Brian Stelter sat down with the

founder of Oculus VR to get a firsthand look at technology at the technology behind this new product.

Brian joins us now from New York.

So, Brian, Oculus is designing virtual reality headsets for release in 2016. Is this basically going to be the next generation of video games for

gamers, or are there other possible uses for this technology?

BRIAN STELTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It could be revolutionary for gaming as well as for communication. That's why Facebook spent $2 billion

to buy Oculus last year. They have very big ambitions for this technology.

But it does at least start with gaming. It starts with technology fans. And when I spoke to the founder of the company, Paulmer Luckey, you

could tell that in the long-term he has much grander sights. Here's what he said.

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PALMER LUCKEY, FOUNDER, OCULUS VR: The thing about gaming is that it's kind of been building up to virtual reality the whole time. For

decades, games have been getting more realistic, higher frame rate, better graphics. And virtual reality is the obvious next step.

People with the technology and the tools and the talent right now to create those virtual worlds are in the games industry. That's why you're

seeing so many games at the start of VR.

STELTER: Before founding Oculus you were studying journalism in school. So how do you think VR could apply to the journalism world?

LUCKEY: I think one of the biggest issues we have right now with news is that it's often hard to draw your own conclusions and to have all of the

relevant information. You know, right now, most ideas are communicated through photos or videos or text. And it's very easy to tell different

stories depending on how you frame the video, whether that second -- whether that photo was taken one second or the next second. And I think

that virtual reality and these types of full scene captures where you can capture what's actually going on have the potential to present events to

people as they actually occur.

So that they can see the entire frame, everything going on behind the photographer, in front of the photographer, everything that's really

happening in a much more accurate way.

STELTER: I guess up until now all journalism has been in 2D, two dimensions, right, you know, the cameras that are shooting this interview,

you're only seeing what's in front of the cameras, you're not seeing what's around the cameras. That's what VR could change.

LUCKEY: Well, absolutely. And I think that that really does change the way that you can perceive things. If you're talking about a war zone,

if you're talking about a political debate, if you're talking about some kind of rally knowing what is actually happening in that scene as opposed

to what a person is able to capture of the story they want to capture through the frame of a camera.

I think outlets are going to have to be really responsible with this new technology, though, because Virtual reality if used irresponsibly does

have the potential to I guess create false equivalency between something that actually happened and something didn't happen.

You know, if you take an event and recreate it in VR or modify it in any way, it can be much more compelling and it can be easier to convince

somebody that that's actually how things happened.

STELTER: What you're saying is that there's a whole new set of media ethics questions that come with VR.

LUCKEY: Yeah, I mean, media ethics are incredibly important. And it's going to be important for people to understand that just because

something looks real in virtual reality does not necessarily mean it actually is real. And you shouldn't assume it's real unless they are

telling you this is unaltered, real, actual captured footage and we haven't done anything. Without that assurance, you don't want to fall into the

trap of seeing something in VR. And because you feel like you're in the scene saying this is how it actually happened.

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[08:40:09] STELTER: You can get a sense there of how far into the future Palmer Luckey is looking through his own VR headset. Yes, it starts

with gaming, yes it starts with live events like CNN's debate last week was produced in virtual reality, but down the line he imagines a world where

you can virtually be present with people thousands of miles away by wearing a VR headset. He imagines a world where you can go to a baseball game not

physically, but virtually and actually feel like you're sitting in the bleachers.

That kind of capability is still a long way off, Ivan, but it's the kind of thing that's worth billions of dollars of investment. That's why

we're seeing so much interest in Silicon Valley in this potential new medium of VR.

WATSON: And I noticed, Brian, Palmer Luckey there wearing what seemed to be his trademark flip flops for that interview.

Now here's my burning question, did you get to try out these Oculus virtual reality goggles? If you did, what was it like?

STELTER: I did. You know, this is going to come out in the first quarter of next year. They say they are very focused on shipping this on

time. It's going to cost several hundred dollars just for the headset and then you also have to have a computer to go along with it.

But it was extraordinary. It was something once you're in the world playing the game, I didn't want to leave that world. I didn't want to

leave that game.

Of course, Ivan, that brings up all sorts of issues about whether virtual live can some day be better than real life. For now, it is mostly

just entertainment, but there's a lot of potential here.

We will see if all of us one day will be wearing these headsets.

WATSON: Brian Stelter on what may be the future for gaming, and perhaps for communications.

Brian, thank you very much.

STELTER: Thank you.

WATSON: Finally, it's a huge day for Star Wars fans -- I've been waiting for this -- take a look at this newly released theatrical poster

for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But wait, there's more.

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WATSON: This sneak peek was also released. The full version of the trailer will be shown during halftime of the NFL's Monday night game. And

who knows, maybe we'll have a moment there like the reappearance of Harrison Ford as Han Solo or some other surprise.

The movie premieres in December, but tickets go on sale right after the trailer airs.

And that is News Stream. I'm Ivan Watson. World Sport with Christina Macfarlane is up next.

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