Believe it or not, Virtual Reality headsets like these were one of the hottest gifts of the holiday season. You got to get it. Its amazing. I felt like i was actually there. But does vr really deserve all the hype . Ahead on sunday morning tax reality check on Virtual Reality. Pauley ly daniels is a hollywood producer and director who came up the hard way. And who makes neither apologies nor excuses. Mo rocca will have hour sunday profile. Lee daniels doesnt shy away from controversial in his movies or television shows. I think that we have become so sanitized, we are to the point in america that we arent able on prime Time Television to do what my hero, norman lear, was able to do. That was change the way people thought. Producer, director, writer, ahead on sunday morning. How sit going . Im in hammock working. Whats not to love . Pauley in this day and age could there really be such a thing as the curse of the lost city . A question for our lee cowan. Honduran jungle can breed all manner of things. Especially legends. Street one about a lost ancient city. You looked around i saw the tops of dozens of stone sculptures just peaking above the ground. Covered in moss everywhere. But the find came with a price that is still being paid today. A lost city found . Later on sunday morning. Pauley what better credential for a pop star than to have the stage name iggy pop. Not that he always stays on the stage as Anthony Mason will show us. He was the first rock star to dive off a stage. And at 69 iggy pop still gets the urge. Well, i gave it up here but not here. Later on sunday morning, punk legend iggy pop. Pauley tracy smith marks the passing of the artist behind bambi. Rita braver looks at the work to have great painters side by side. Tony dokoupil introduces us to a 40yearold horse who is still kickin. And more. First, the headlines for this sunday morning, the 8th of january, 2017. In jerusalem today a truck driver plowed into a group of Israeli Soldiers at least four were killed, 15 others injured. Other soldiers killed the driv driver. Isreal calls it a terror attack. Investigators the iraq war veteran held for the shooting rampage at the Fort Lauderdale airport traveled there specifically to carry out the attack. Esteban santiago is accused of killing five people and wounding eight others with a handgun he legally checked on a flight from alaska. The identities of two of the airport dead have now been confirmed. They are olga weltering of marietta, georgia and Terry Andrews of virginia beach, virginia. The office of government ethics says several of president elect trump as cabinet choices have yet to complete a review to avoid conflicts of interests. Senate republicans plan nine confirmation hear, this week. The nfl playoffs are underway in seattle yesterday, the seahawks tamed the detroit lyons 266. In second wild card game houston beat oakland 2714. Today on cbs the steelers take on the miami dolphins. If sports arent your thing hollywoods finest are on display at the Golden Globe Awards tonight. And finally around here, january 8th is no ordinary day. Its Charles Osgoods birthday, happy birth day. Now todays weather. Heavy rain in the west chance of severe flooding from San Francisco to seattle to nevada. Snow from the sierras to the rockies. And arctic air will freeze the east. As for the week ahead, its winter from compost to coast. Pauley good work. Good work. All right. Welcome to the mountains of Washington State where im wearing a mask playing with a little dog. Go get it. Well, actually, im standing in front of a green screen in new york wearing that headset that puts me and by extension you in a virtual mountain reality. Here is david pogue. At the Consumer Electronics show this mast week, you might have wondered why people were strapping these contraptions to their faces. What are they, blindfolds . Scuba masks . Some kind of unpleasant eye exam . Nope. Theyre Virtual Reality headsets. Theres nothing quite like doning the headset yourself and truly experiencing these environments. Ryan hoopingarner spends much of his time demonstrating the htv vive. Ill have you put on your headset. You get it. That youre not just seeing a scene. You can look around inside it. Wow the vive requires laser sensors that you set up in your room, special handle, is that you carry as a result you can even walk around inside the scene. Grab the slingshot. Or handle objects in that virtual world. Explosions. But vr entertainment can be more than just blowing stuff up. It can take you places you couldnt or wouldnt go. Like the bottom of the ocean. Okay thats a big whale. Hi or the top of mount everest. Htv isnt alone, sony, samsung, google and facebook each released new vr headsets last year. And just this week another half dozen were unveiled at the electronics show. With so many different goggles coming out the Software Companies are racing to write software that will run on them like vrtify which aims to give you front row seat at concerts. All sorts of businesses are considering the possibilities. Bradley stern went shopping for a Newtown House without leaving his realtors office. Everything is so vivid. Real estate agent Evan Rosenfeld thinks Virtual Reality could change the way people buy homes forever. We have wherever we going to be in five years . Is the client going to be able to completely design their property before its built . I think its going to be something. Virtual reality is actually been around for decades. Is he asleep . Well wake. I in st. Louis a man swings at nothing. In North Carolina lab, a man bends to look at nothing. Have these people all lost touch with reality . In a way, yes. That is Virtual Reality. But vr was never good enough to appeal to the public until 2014. Facebook is making another multibillion dollar acquisition. Thats when Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg paid 2d billion to buy oculus a headset created by 17yearold Palmer Luckey in his parents garage. These days, Silicon Valley seems to believe that soon well all live our lives wearing vr goggles. Never mind that they can cost as much as 800 and must be wired to a high end pc. But just because a new Technology Gets a lot of hype doesnt mean its actually ready for prime time. First of all, theres a giant thing on your head which is just obnoxious. Uscannenberg Communications Professor studies how people interact. Pretty significant problems with motion sickness and nausea. That will drop down and go away over time. But right now were in a bump where i have troublesome times. A lot of people do. So, theyre big and heavy. Very expensive. Sometimes make you sick. Great. But williams says theres an even bigger problem with vr. Its incredibly isolating. It shuts you off from the world. I dont think people are going to be wearing vr goggles much of their days because then they cant look at other people. It is just that simple. Thats where augmented reality comes in. Thats where you still see the real world around you but the computer layers new graphics on to that view. Remember pokeemon go . Last summer, millions of people played this game searching the real world for digital creatures that appeared only on the phones screen. That is augmented reality. All right. So, can ahead put this on. The microsoft hololens is an augmented reality headset or what microsoft calls, mixed reality. Well to come to windows holographic. These are off. Theres nothing its not off. Theres picture of mountains on it. Thats an actual hologram. Alex kipman heads up the hololens project for microsoft. He compares todays hololens from cell phone from 1985. This early model is wireless, weighs only a pound and responds to hand and voice commands. Go ahead just look at the browser, select it, drag it up and down. Youre an expert. When you work then, wearing hololens, youre saying that you have multiple virtual floating monitors like this. You can say, heres my programming. Exactly correct. Imagine infinite monitors at your fingertips. Its still a long way from those floating screens in the tom cruise movie minority report. But maybe not as far as you think. Lets go ahead and get in. Hello. Theres a dude here. In ohio, Case Western Reserve University medical school and the Cleveland Clinic have teamed up to create an anatomy curriculum. The internal thoracic arteries which are rising from the subclavian. The school plans to replace the traditional cadaver lab used for anatomy classes with clean, up right, heart still pumping, digital bodies, curt see of hololens. Mark griswold led the team that designed the curriculum. What youre doing is what medical students did the first time they saw this, too. They got down on the ground and they looked at it from underneath because first time we were able to see that. That is crazy. You know, they always tell singer, sing from the diaphragm. You want your diaphragm flattened. I never knew what that meant. Thats the die photograph. That is the muscle that helps us breathe. Wow. Its really difficult to see in a cadaver. It was the diaphragm that blew me away. First Year Medical Student nicole wise was surprised at how real the hologram seemed. I went South Carolina 0 thinking it would be a fonda, thennivity was going to be gimmicky. I learned things that i hadnt appreciated either in the cadaver course or in our lectures. We envision a day when every student showing up on campus is going to have a hololens in their backpack. Like high schools giving out laptops to use. This is going to be a core part of what you learn. Whether its history or anatomy, youre going to be learning on hololens. Are you saying that this is radical enough to become something that everybodys got some day . Absolutely. Microsofts alex kipman. There is a world in front much us where these things are replacing your phone. Theyre replacing your tvs. Theyre replacing your desktop. I mean, think about how long ago you didnt have pc cs in your offices. Seems like forever ago. I do believe absolutely they replace it. When . That i dont know. It will be within our life tim times. I dont know about you, im really bad. I couldnt find anything to shoot. But for uscs dmitri williams, whether its augmented reality or Virtual Reality this Technology Wont succeed until it becomes more interesting than, well, real reality. Imagine its, you know, a year, two years from now everybody could easily throw on their goggles and do things. Is it better than not wearing goggles . Sit better than when we were just watching tv together, sit better than when we were playing a board game or having dinner or having a conversation, god forbid, right . Up next, something to chew on. Can you catch it on your tonsils does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bed post overnight pauley now a page from our sunday morning almanac. January 8, 1998, 19 years ago today. The day bubble gum inventor Walter Diemer died at the age of 93. Diemer was working in philadelphia for the Fleer Candy Company in 1928 when he accidentally stumbled upon the winning formula. He made it pink, he said, because that was the one food color he happened to have on hand. Accident or not, fleers double bubble brand inflated rapidly from that small beginning. A 1950s promotional film proudly showed off fleers production skills, as well as the bubble blowing prowess of its staff. By the 1970s, other companies had joined the bubble battle, including life savers. 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Pauley the artist tyrus wong died just a few days ago at the remarkable age of 106. Remarkable as well was the contribution he made to one of our most beloved films of all time. Tracy smith snows all about his life story firsthand. For decades, artist tyrus wong and his fantastic kites were a fixture on and above santa monica beach. While you might not recognize his name a certain deer named bambi has tyrus wong to thank for the exquisite settings in the 1942 film. How much of an impact did tyrus wong have on the look of bambi . He basically created the look of the film. This is tyrus painting a mural. Michael labrie, director of collections at the Walt Disney Family Museum curated an exhibition in 2013. Everything you see on the screen. The other artists were trained to draw like tyrus for that film. Bambi wong was working a tedious entry level job at disney in 1938 when he heard about the studios plan to adapt felix saltens book into a movie. He spent weekends doing hundreds and hundreds of drawings. Sort of like chinese scroll paintings. Walt disney himself decided that the look. Film would be based on tyrus wongs drawings. This is a real special piece of the prince in the forest where he flamed what the piece was supposed to say and the story. The 74yearold film is beloved by generations including los angeles filmmaker, pamela tom. Tyrus really contributed to the culture. She was watching bambi with her daughter back in 1997 when she happened to catch tyrus wongs name in the credits. My first thought was, wait a minute, cheneyamerican working at disney in the 1930s. I just had to find out who he was. What tom found out turn into a documentary illustrating why tyrus wong was, as she calls him, the perfect leading man with an epic life story. Its set to air on pbss american masters this summer. My father, i got came to america wong came to the u. S. With only his father in 1920. Did you get into a little bit of mischief . Oh, yeah. Yeah. Im no angel, you know. No age smell. No. When wong was in junior high, one of his teachers noticed he was more interested in art than arithmetic so did tyrus dad. He understood the value of your artistic talent. But it was unusual, for an immigrant, a chinese immigrant to choose art. The chinese in chinatown didnt think very much. You have to remember that the Employment Opportunities for chinese back then was limited to being a waiter, working in laundry. But the father in his wisdom recognized his sons talents and went out and borrowed money to get tyrus through his first year of art school. After graduation, from Otis Art Institute in los angeles, wong found work as an artist. Also worked at a restaurant in chinatown. There he fell hard for a pretty coworker, ruth kim. What moment in your life do you most remember . When i got married. They wed in 1937. And by 1938 had the first of three daughters. It was ruth who suggested tyrus apply for a job at disney. How long did tyrus work at disney. Only for three years. Why did he leave . It was to do with the strike. Wong was let go after many animaters went out on strike in 1941, a full year before bambi was finished. His contribution to the film were minimized. When you talk to him, though, theres absolutely no bitterness. That really reflects tyrus personality. Its not to say that he didnt feel racism or injustice, but he really picked his battles. And he just tried to not dwell on it. Wong then spent 26 years at warner brothers, where he helped create the look of dozens of films. I think part paul newman. Shelly winters. Always mindful of providing for his family he also designed christmas cards on the side. Kim wong is tyrus youngest daughter. He would go into the department stores, my sister and i would go, find his album put it on top where people would see it. One of tyrus designs sold over a million cards. The only time tyrus stopped working was when ruth got sick. He spent 15 years caring for her until she died in 1995. They were married for over 50 years. He was really just devoted to caring for her. Ruth never got the chance to see her husband celebrated for his work. Our next ledge end had a brief but impactful disney career. In 2001 disney honored him as a legend. Though it took the world awhile to acknowledge tyrus wong, today we can put up that centipede. Today like the kites he created his reputation continues to soar. Such a beautiful metaphor for his life. A