AT&T's new streaming television service looks like a cord-cutter's dream come true.

For as little as $35 a month, DirecTV Now will stream live television from networks you typically find on cable and satellite over the internet to your smartphone, tablet, computer, or set-top box like an Apple TV.

There's a lot to like about DirecTV Now, from its low price to its hassle-free sign-up. (For a quick overview of the product, go here).

But as we found out at the launch event in New York on Monday, DirectTV Now has a lot of caveats. 

The first is that although you can sign up for DirecTV Now's 100+ channel package for $35 dollars at launch, and get it at that price in perpetuity, that's not the price that the service will settle at. That 100+ channel package will normally cost $60 per month, and that's the price people will pay if they sign up after the initial promotion. 

There will still be a $35 plan after the launch promotion, but that will only include 60 channels (prices will scale up to $70 a month for 120 channels).

And there are a few other things you won't get with DirecTV Now.

Here is a quick rundown:

• CBS and Showtime are not currently part of the service. AT&T says it is working actively to get them on the platform.
• Cloud DVR isn't available yet, meaning you can't always pause live TV. AT&T says cloud DVR will come in the next iteration of the product. Right now, however, DirecTV Now does have a big on-demand library, especially for current-season shows. A feature called "72-hour look-back" is also available on a lot of shows, which lets you watch them on-demand for that period of time after they air. 72-hour look-back means that for many shows, you'll be able to essentially pause or rewind live TV, but it depends on the particular network and program deal.
• Depending on your market, certain local affiliate stations might not be on board yet, though AT&T says it is working to get them all eventually. 
• Roku isn't supported yet, though AT&T says it will be in two to four weeks.
• There is no 4K support.
• You can't have more than two streams going at once. While AT&T says it will look at premium packages for more than that down the line, for now, it will shut off at two.
• There is Spanish-language content from providers like Univision, but there are no packages specifically focused on non-English speakers.
• NFL Sunday Ticket is not currently available.
• You won't be able to stream NFL games on your phone, as Verizon still has an exclusive deal for mobile streaming.

All this underscores that while DirecTV Now is a monster deal for many people, the product still isn't fully formed.

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The INSIDER Summary:

• Miraphora Mina designed all the periodicals in the "Harry Potter" and "Fantastic Beasts" films.
• Mina got a few headlines from J.K. Rowling.
• All of the other headlines and advertisements were up to her design firm, MinaLima.

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" opens with newspaper clippings streaming across the screen, warning about the threat of Gellert Grindelwald, a dark wizard trying to expose magic to humankind. "IS ANYONE SAFE?" The New York Ghost screams on its front page. "HOGWARTS SCHOOL INCREASES SECURITY," The Daily Prophet warns.

Newspapers pop up throughout the movie. Another copy of the Ghost is held by a goblin as we first enter MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America, located in Manhattan's Woolworth building), and another character holds a copy of Transfiguration Today. As with the "Harry Potter" films, they add detail to J.K. Rowling's creation, offering glimpses of a larger magical world operating out of the confines of the plot.

In "Fantastic Beasts," they also offer clues about the story. The creation of The Daily Prophet in the "Harry Potter" series was mostly the work of MinaLima, a small design firm that created the graphic designfor all the"Harry Potter" films, as well as things like the book covers for the Pottermore e-books and the design for the "Fantastic Beasts" screenplay book. It's run by Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima in London.

For this movie, producer David Heyman, director David Yates, and Rowling gave MinaLima different headlines to use for the opening sequence, like the ones warning about Grindelwald. The majority of the papers were MinaLima's creation.

"We were given maybe half a dozen main headlines to feature," MinaLima co-founder Miraphora Mina told INSIDER. "Everything else that’s on the rest of the paper, we have to create."

One of Rowling's offerings is a small reveal about Albus Dumbledore. Once Grindelwald's close friend, he later became Newt Scamander's Transfiguration professor at Hogwarts before becoming headmaster. Eagle-eyed viewers may have spotted in "Fantastic Beasts" that Dumbledore is a contributor for "Transfiguration Today."

The big difference between doing the graphic design work on the periodicals in "Fantastic Beasts" versus the "Harry Potter" movies was that "Fantastic Beasts" didn't have any material before the script. The MinaLima team had to make everything in the papers except for those headlines, including other stories, the weather, and animated advertisements. They couldn't peer into a long "Harry Potter" novel for inspiration and information about the larger "Harry Potter" world, so they had to meet with Rowling to ask about some details.

"We actually did have to have a couple of meetings with Jo," Mina said. "We had some seemingly insignificant questions, like 'What’s Newt’s birthday?' so we could put it on his passport, or 'What’s Tina’s middle name?' so we could put it on her ID card. [It] was really nice, to sit down with her and go through some of these things. And she knew straight away what the answers were."

Mina and her team tried to use the vernacular of Rowling's novels to create the contextual "Harry Potter" world in the headlines. They know the headlines will be scrutinized by fans, so they'll try to refer to creatures, potions, and spells from the books. And at the same time, they looked into the history and geography of the setting, mentioning things like Central Park and sports games. All the while, they're maintaining the atmosphere of the story: that the wizarding world is increasingly at risk of exposure.

"We were all trying to keep it in that magical world, but anchor it in the reality," Mina said. "Maybe comments on muggles. And obviously the ongoing stories, like the risks of the wizarding world being exposed to the No-Majs."

All of this had to be done in the space of newspaper headlines, where there's a limited character count. Some of them had to be done in different languages.

"If you notice, there was one [newspaper] in German and one in French," Mina said. "So I was emailing my friends, going, 'Can you please give me some really good headlines in German?'"

The ads in the papers also have a sense of humor — you might notice an ad for the New York Academy of House Elf Training and an item about the Louisiana Swamp Monster hair being used as a wand core. They also hide a few Easter eggs. At one point in the film, for example, Dougal the Demiguise hides in front of a street poster for Divine Magic perfume. That same brand shows up in an ad in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."

All of the stories, advertisements, and other developments still needed to be cleared by Rowling, but even if Rowling slipped in any clues in the headlines or advertisements of the papers, Mina wouldn't know.

"If there were, I wouldn’t know what they are," she said. "I wish I knew. I wouldn’t tell you if I did. I genuinely have no idea what’s in the next film. And I’m quite excited to find out."

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One of the big knocks against cord-cutting, the act of ditching your $100+ dollar cable package forever, has been that you won't actually save any money.

If you have to subscribe to everything a la carte, those $10 per month subscriptions add up — plus you still have to pay for internet. But with the release of DirecTV Now, AT&T's new streaming TV service, it's now possible to construct an ultimate entertainment bundle for about $63 a month. This includes services like Netflix and Amazon Prime that many people pay for on top of their big cable packages anyway.

That's a game changer.

This cord-cutter plan isn't a skinny bundle of channels, but a robust lineup that will satisfy even the most voracious consumers of media. And it requires minimal up-front equipment costs to boot.

Here's a rundown:

The content

• DirecTV Now 100+ channel package: $35 per month. This package normally costs $60 per month, but if you order during the promotional pricing period, this lower price point is locked in unless you cancel your subscription. The channel lineup is what you expect from a premium cable package — from FX, to CNN, to ESPN, to regional sports networks.
• HBO add-on to DirecTV Now: $5 per month. This gives you access to all HBO content on all your devices, and would normally cost you $14.99 per month if you bought it straight via HBO Now.
• Netflix: $9.99 per month. With Netflix diving deeper into original shows (1,000 hours in 2017!), you're going to want to have an account moving forward, even with a TV package.
• Amazon Prime: $8.25 per month (at $99 per year), but let's say about $4 is the value of the TV shows and movies. Prime also gives you things like free two-day shipping, music streaming, and an ebook library. Amazon has said it is ramping up its investment in original TV, and just released Jeremy Clarkson's "The Grand Tour."
• Showtime add-on to Amazon Prime: $8.99 per month. This gives you access to all Showtime's content, including series like "Shameless," "Homeland," "The Affair," and "Billions," as well as movies and documentaries.
• Broadcast channels: Free. One bad thing about DirecTV Now is that AT&T hasn't signed up CBS yet, but you can still watch it for free with a digital antenna.

The equipment

• Digital antenna: ~$25.
• Apple TV: Free with three-month subscription to DirecTV Now. If you sign up for three months of DirecTV Now you get an Apple TV free. One month gets you an Amazon Fire Stick.

Final cost: Around $63 per month

This all means that a cord-cutter can now reasonably construct an impressive entertainment bundle for ~$63 per month, plus a $25 up-front investment for the digital antenna. Split it with a friend, roommate, or significant other and that's $31.50 per month. (Note: You still have to pay for internet, and have a TV, but these costs vary widely so I won't try and estimate them here).

There are also a few caveats to DirecTV Now, and it's definitely still a work in progress. For instance, there is no cloud DVR yet — in the next iteration, according to AT&T — or 4K support. But DirecTV Now does let you watch many shows on-demand, and has a feature called "72-hour look-back" to let you watch shows that aired in the last 72 hours.

If you want a full list of all the limitations of DirecTV Now, we wrote an entire post on it.

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Trevor Noah thinks President-elect Donald Trump's reaction to a call for a vote recount makes the issue a bigger deal than it should be, and makes Trump look worse.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein has raised upward of $6 million to fund a recount of votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. She believes that hacking and "human error" could've played a role in the presidential vote tally in those decisive states, which went to Trump. (If Hillary Clinton had won all three, she would be elected.)

"Uh, yeah, we know there was human error," Noah said on Monday's "Daily Show," "because now [Trump] is president." 

Over the weekend, the Hillary Clinton campaign said it would support Stein's call for recounts by sending its attorneys to witness the recounts, but it won't provide any financial support.

In response, Trump posted several tweets. But Noah thinks one in particular is just bringing more attention to the recounts. Trump claimed that he would've won the popular vote if not for "millions of people who voted illegally" in the election.

Several news outlets have reported that Trump's claim is unfounded. 

In response to an ABC News report that said, "Trump offered no proof to that claim," Noah said, "That's the news' way of saying 'bulls---'!"

He then added, "Count on Trump to find a way to be a sore winner. I didn’t even know that was a thing."

Watch the "Daily Show" segment below:

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The INSIDER Summary:

• Miraphora Mina created the graphic designs for "Fantastic Beasts" and the "Harry Potter" films.
• She said recreating 1926 New York was the biggest challemge.
• Her team made storefronts and street posters to bring the city to life.

When creating the world of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," director David Yates and producer David Heyman got the old gang back together again for another franchise.

They hired MinaLima, the six-person London-based design firm that created everything from the Marauder's Map to the product labels on everything in Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes to help recreate 1926 New York City for "Fantastic Beasts."

It was a different experience than creating the purely fictional, fantastical world of "Harry Potter." Miraphora Mina, one of MinaLima's co-founders, told INSIDER that it was a challenge to adhere to the history of the place.

"There’s lots of things that you wouldn't necessarily notice in the film that have to be quite meticulously thought out, like the geography of this real place," Mina said. "If we’re downtown in the tenements, then who’s got those businesses? If we know from the time that it’s Irish, Italian, Jewish — predominently — then we have to reflect that in the businesses and the names."

The non-magical, muggle world was bigger than Harry Potter's world, Mina said, and it was all recreated as part of a giant set in London.

Each building was given its own "graphic identity" to establish a sense of space and where each part of the set was supposed to be in New York. The scenes in Downtown Manhattan by the Brooklyn Bridge had to look clearly distinct from the scenes in midtown, on the way to Central Park, even though it was all shot on the same London set.

In researching that setting, the MinaLima team had to not only research what 1926 was like — and not go beyond that date — but also what the city was like ten or fifteen years before that, because not everything on the streets would be new.

To create the world, they made storefronts, street posters, as well as magical and non-magical books, magazines, and newspapers. Many of them were stuffed in the backgrounds of scenes to give everything a sense of reality. Other objects, like the poster on the door of the Blind Pig, and the Magical Exposure Threat Level Clock, were important parts of the plot.

And with all of those details, the MinaLima team successfully brought a new part of J.K. Rowling's world to life.

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Warning: Spoilers ahead if you haven't watched Netflix's "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life."

Among the revelations promised in Netflix's "Gilmore Girls" revival, the one about Michel's sexuality was pretty unexpected — even for the actor who plays the character.

"I found out about it when I read the script," Yanic Truesdale told Business Insider recently.

Truesdale said that he had never spoken to "Gilmore Girls" creator Amy Sherman-Palladino about his character being gay — even just to discuss the character's backstory, which can be helpful for an actor.

For years, fans speculated on the uptight, easily annoyed Frenchman's sexuality. The character's romantic life was never shown, nor discussed during the original series. But during the first part of Netflix's "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life," we finally learned that he's not only gay, but married to a man.

"People have been speculating since the beginning of the show if he was gay or not," Truesdale said of Michel. "Some fans thought I had a secret crush on Lorelai. I mean, everyone has their own take on him."

In the revival, Michel's personal life is an important piece of information. He and his husband, whom we don't actually meet, were looking to adopt a child and Michel had to wonder about his ability to provide for the new member of the family, as well as whether there was anywhere to move up at Lorelai's (Lauren Graham) Stars Hollow hotel, the Dragonfly Inn.

"I think it was more satisfying for me, this time around, because we touched on some of his personal aspects of life," Truesdale said. "You know, the fact that he’s married, the children issue, the crossroads with his work, and having to make big decisions in his life made me connect with him at a deeper level. And that was great. I’ve always wanted to have more personal stuff for him, because it’s satisfying to go there for an actor. So I’m happy about it."

Even so, Truesdale said that knowing the character is gay didn't affect how he portrayed Michel.

"To me, it didn’t change anything either way because Michel is a character that’s never been defined by his sexuality," he told us. "Mostly, he's defined by his irritants or being French and everything that entails. This is the foundation that I’ve worked with, so either way, for me whatever his love life was didn’t affect my choices as an actor."

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When Taylor Sheridan was 11 years old, he caught a wicked case of pneumonia that left him bedridden for weeks and unable to enjoy the 200 acres he lived on in the small North Texas community of Bosque County, just an hour west of Waco.

Though he looks back on his childhood fondly, being stuck sick with nothing to do but watch the three channels on his TV set became the foundation for what he does today.

“I watched a lot of old movies,” Sheridan, 47, recently told Business Insider of his time in bed. “Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived. Soon after we finally got cable and the whole world opened up.”

Sheridan’s meteoric rise as one of the top screenwriters working in Hollywood thanks to his acclaimed scripts in the last two years, “Sicario” and “Hell or High Water,” is a unique one.

After spending over 20 years working as a struggling actor, he finally landed a steady role playing Deputy Chief David Hale for three seasons on "Sons of Anarchy." But when it came time to renegotiate his contract in 2010, Sheridan found himself at a crossroads.

"They had one idea about what I was worth and I had a very different idea," he said.

The grind to make a living as an actor had finally delivered its death blow. Fed up with only making the AFTRA weekly scale rate for "Sons of Anarchy" — which after taxes and paying his agent wasn't enough for him to make a living, so he had to also teach evening acting classes to pay the rent — and with a baby on the way, Sheridan saw the negotiations as a wake-up call.

"I felt, how can you tell your kid you can be anything you want to be if you're not trying to do the same?" he said. "I imagine myself being 40-something years old and I can't go to his baseball game because I got a Windex commercial or something."

So Sheridan decided to quit "Sons of Anarchy" — and acting.

For a brief moment, this is when Taylor Sheridan’s career in show business could have ended.

Not wanting to raise his child in a big city like Los Angeles, he moved his family to Wyoming where he interviewed for a ranch manager job.

“I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming and the reason I didn’t take the job is because I couldn’t have my family there — the family had to stay in town,” Sheridan said. “I just wasn’t willing to do that.”

Instead, Sheridan took up screenwriting.

"I just sat down and thought, I don't know how to do this but I've read 10,000 scripts in my life and most of them were not very good, so if I just don't do all the things that bothered me as an actor it will probably turn out okay," he said.

His first script was "Sicario," a thriller he wrote on spec that’s set on the US/Mexico border and follows an idealist FBI agent who is brought in to help take down the Mexican cartels, but instead finds she’s the pawn in a plot by a CIA officer to take control of one of the cartels by having its leader assassinated.

“I didn't expect the movie to ever be made,” Sheridan said. “Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write and it basically stands as a means of here's an example of how I tell stories. It's almost like a business card. So ‘Sicario’ essentially was that. You dream it will be made. You hope. But realistically you can't care.”

So Sheridan threw the script in the drawer and wrote a script that would be easier to sell, “Hell or High Water,” then titled “Comancheria.”

Like “Sicario,” it would explore Sheridan’s fascination with the modern-day American frontier. But this time he wrote something closer to home. He used a crime caper to examine the impoverished West Texas towns he came across when visiting family in Orchard City a few years ago.

“I was driving by empty house after empty house — it was just abandoned. And this one place that I think had the best hamburgers in America was gone,” he said. “The idea of all these places being gone and then there was this terrible drought, it just became natural that I wanted to explore that.”

He set the story around two brothers who decide to embark on an ingenious bank-robbing spree in order to save their family ranch, which is a victim of the mortgage crisis.

Though “Hell or High Water” sold first, ironically it was “Sicario” that got to theaters first, thanks in part to top talent like Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro involved.

But “Hell or High Water” could lead to Sheridan receiving Oscar gold.

Released this summer among the dead weight of bloated sequels and failed blockbusters, the movie instantly built a following and Oscar hype for Sheridan. Chris Pine and Ben Foster are incredible playing the brothers, while Jeff Bridges gives one of his best performances in years (which might also land him an Oscar) playing the Texas Ranger who is on their trail.

In both “Sicario” and “Hell or High Water,” Sheridan displays a gift to tell original stories through genres in which we think we've seen it all. And though in “Sicario” the story is extremely clever, in some ways the visionary skills of director Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival”) and cinematographer Roger Deakins are what you walk away from the theater remembering most.

In “Hell or High Water,” director David Mackenzie lets Sheridan shine, especially his dialogue, which is some of the best you’ll get all year.

Sheridan’s success becomes even more remarkable when he admits that both finished “Sicario” and “Hell or High Water” scripts were first drafts. Asked how this is even possible, Sheridan goes back to his former career.

“What I did as an actor, I was the guest star, I was the 10th banana on the series. My job was to push exposition, I was the one that shoveled the implausible parts of the scripts. That was my job,” he said. “So for me it was very easy on the page to see if I tried something and it didn't work. For me, structurally it needs to be seamless. I'm not someone who puts the whole thing down and goes back to fix. I want it perfect as I go.”

Sheridan has completed the script for the “Sicario” sequel, “Soldado,” which will come out next year with Josh Brolin returning as the CIA agent and Del Toro as the assassin. And he’s finishing up his directorial debut “Wind River,” which is the conclusion of his American frontier trilogy (also opening in 2017).

Starring Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, and Jon Bernthal, it looks at a murder that occurred at a Native American reservation.

“There's a theme that exists in all three of these movies, which is failure of a father, and that theme is explored in its most acute sense in this one,” he said. “I don't want to say resolved, but I was really fascinated by how someone moves on from a tragedy without ever getting closure.”

Sheridan is aware of the importance of “Wind River.” As “Sicario” put him on the map and “Hell or High Water” could earn him an Oscar, it will be his work in the director’s chair that will prove if he can go forward telling his stories through his own lens.

“I was lucky with Denis and David. They were very protective of the scripts,” Sheridan said. “But with ‘Wind River’ I got to do exactly what I wanted to do. If that one doesn’t work, there’s no pointing the finger at anyone but me.”   

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"Westworld" star Evan Rachel Wood revealed her painful history with sexual assault in an open letter on Monday.

Wood originally wrote the letter to Rolling Stone the day after the presidential election to supplement an interview she did with the magazine and then released the full text on Twitter after the magazine article went public, saying, "Well since everything is out in the open now, figured I'd share the confession letter I wrote to Rolling Stone in its entirety."

"I don't believe we live in a time where people can stay silent any longer," Wood wrote in the letter. "I certainly can't. Not given the state our world is in with its blatant bigotry and sexism."

She then revealed, "Yes, I have been raped. By a significant other while we were together, and on a separate occasion, by the owner of a bar."

The actress then explained how she initially struggled with calling the first assault "rape," since it was with her then-partner. After the second assault, she found ways to blame herself for it happening. Now she says she no long believes any of that.

"This was many, many years ago and I, of course, know now neither one was my fault and neither one was OK," she wrote. "This was all before I tried to commit suicide and I am sure was one of the many factors."

On "Westworld," Wood plays a robot, or "host" as they're called in the drama's theme park, named Dolores. Her assigned story as a naive, romance-driven farm girl has many times ended in sexual assault and a violent death, a fulfillment of the park's patrons' fantasies.

In response to the abuse her character endures on "Westworld," Wood told Rolling Stone:

"The thing about 'Westworld' is we don't actually show any act of rape. It's the initial knee-jerk reaction — which I totally get because it is a problem and valid. You know, I was affected by things being written off as locker-room talk — I had a very, very visceral reaction to it. But the show is definitely a commentary on that."

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Nintendo is fiercely protective of its properties. Super Mario, Donkey Kong, and Link are characters you'll find almost exclusively in products made by Nintendo.

That's why it's such a big deal that Nintendo is partnering with Universal Studios to create Nintendo-themed game worlds in several Universal Studios theme parks around the world.

The deal's been in the works for some time, but the two companies issued an update on Tuesday morning: Nintendo attractions will open at Universal Studios Japan, Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood across the next several years. The attractions "will be expansive, immersive and interactive," according to the release. "They’ll be highly themed and authentic environments filled with multiple attractions, shops and restaurants." 

Sounds like the real-life version of the Wii U game "NintendoLand!"

You can spy some teases of what the attractions might look like in the background of a video released on Tuesday morning:

Here's another:

Work on the attractions is "well underway," and they're promised to have "something for everyone" (gamers and non-gamers alike). In the video, it's clear that a "Super Mario Bros." area will be a main attraction.

Power-up mushrooms and green turtle shells are clearly seen in the background of several shots:

Universal's promising more specifics on the first park's Nintendo-themed attraction sooner than later, so keep an eye out for that in the coming weeks.

The full video — with a few more looks at the project alongside breathless hype from Universal and Nintendo executives — is right here, should you be so inclined:

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VLC media player has launched a technical preview for playing 360-degree videos in its desktop app, with the full functionality set to arrive when VLC 3.0 launches at the end of the month, Variety reports.

VLC is one of the most popular cross-platform multimedia players, and its support for 360 video formats is another sign that virtual reality content is crossing into the mainstream. 

VLC is revered for its ability to play virtually any video format. For example, its app release for Apple TV gave users oodles of flexibility to watch videos in formats that Apple doesn’t support. There have been over 2 billion downloads of the VLC media player to date, and over 1.3 billion downloads of its the most recent VLC 2.0 “Twoflower” version, which was first released in 2012.

Next year, VLC plans to support major VR headsets and platforms. Google Daydream, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift will probably be integrated with VLC, according to the media player’s parent organization VideoLAN. Future releases of VLC with 360-degree video support will also be available on Android, iOS and Xbox One.

However, YouTube’s 360-degree videos yet aren’t supported by VLC just yet. VideoLAN President Jean-Baptiste Kempf told PC World that they are waiting on Google to release this support. Once YouTube exports video with the 360 metadata standard, VLC will automatically be able to play them. This issue points to the the fragmentation problem that exists in the VR industry. 

The virtual reality (VR) market has made significant strides throughout 2016.

New VR headsets like the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive debuted amid great consumer anticipation, while VR content launches kept pace, with Batman: Arkham VR and Chair In A Room garnering encouraging download totals.

At the same time, industry groups and conferences brought developers, investors, and content producers together, helping to further ramp up buzz in this nascent space.   

BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, forecasts shipments of VR headsets to spike by 1047% year-over-year (YoY) to 8.2 million in 2016. This growth will help propel the virtual reality space to exceed $1 billion in revenue for the first time, according to research by Deloitte. Powering that growth is an estimated 271% increase in investment in AR (augmented reality) and VR companies from 2015, according to estimates from CB Insights.

But while 2016 has indeed been an important year for the VR market, it hasn’t necessarily been a big one — at least not compared to its future growth potential.

VR headset shipments will continue to grow in the years ahead, driven by the introduction of new content that will appeal to a broad swath of users. 

Jessica Smith, research analyst for BI Intelligence, has compiled a detailed report on virtual reality that explores the highly fragmented and volatile VR market that emerged in 2016, lays out the future growth potential in numerous key VR hardware categories as driven by major VR platforms, and examines consumer sentiment and developer excitement for VR, presenting which headset categories and platforms are most poised for success in the near- to mid-term.

Here are some key takeaways from the report:

• This has been an important foundational year for the VR market. New hardware and content have brought more options to market to appeal to a wider set of consumers. 
• But the growth seen this year is merely a foreshadowing of the future. The highly fragmented VR market today will eventually narrow as the market grows and matures.
• After considerable progress in 2016, the VR market is ripe for transformation in 2017. Developers, consumers, investors, and hardware makers have a host of options from which to choose, each with their own strengths and shortcomings.
• The environment is poised for the first killer VR app to hit the market sometime in 2017, which will be a major catalyst for consumer adoption of VR hardware.
• Not all headset categories and platforms will emerge as winners in the near future. More immersive headsets that offer the best VR experiences are too expensive for most consumers. Alternately, affordable headsets that rely on smartphones as processors offer sub-par experiences that can induce sickness.

In full, the report:

• Identifies the major players in today's VR hardware and platform markets.
• Estimates future growth of each of the major VR categories.
• Explores barriers to mass market consumer adoption for each of the VR hardware categories.
• Considers how developer sentiment is driving the growth of various platforms. 
• Assesses how the market will shake out over the next five years in terms of size and the success of various VR hardware categories. 

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Netflix just unveiled the trailer for "White Rabbit Project" and it looks fantastic. The show stars the "Mythbusters" Build Team of Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, and Grant Imahara and will feature them tracking down all sorts of internet-inspired facts and fiction.

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The Gotham Awards are held every year on the Monday after Thanksgiving in New York City, marking the unofficial start of the award season. Though the event champions major achievements in the independent film world, it was hard this year to avoid addressing the results of the presidential election, including for one of its winners, Ethan Hawke.

The evening’s host, Keegan-Michael Key (half of the duo making up TV show “Key & Peele,” he also starred in this year's indie “Don’t Think Twice”), joked at the beginning of the show that he had missed the election and had written his monologue before the results, assuming Hillary Clinton had won. The act only got a small number of laughs.

Damian Lewis presented the audience award by saying, “The film that receives the most votes is the winner. What a brilliant idea,” referring to Donald Trump winning the Electoral College to win the presidency but Clinton winning the popular vote.

Comedian Nick Kroll got in on it as well when he presented the best actor award: “Gentlemen, if you don’t win, take solace in the fact that you didn’t win because the Russians interfered in ways we don’t understand,” he said.

Ethan Hawke received one of the tribute awards of the evening, and in talking backstage with Business Insider, he didn’t hold back on what he thinks about President-elect Trump.

“The great thing is the artistic community is given a huge opportunity,” Hawke told Business Insider. “Whenever faced with fascism, the artistic community generally rises to the occasion.”

Barry Jenkins, director of the year’s hit indie movie “Moonlight" — which won four awards during the evening, including best feature — observed that, since the election, his movie has suddenly become a beacon for those who are disappointed by the results.

“In the wake of the election people sent me Twitter and Instagram direct messages saying that as a result of the election the only thing to do was to spend two hours that they felt would give them a fresh perspective or reaffirm this idea of humanity,” Jenkins told Business Insider after winning the best feature prize. “I got so many notes about people seeing the movie for a second time after the election. So in that sense I don't know if it's changed the film but the one thing I think of is I went eight years without making a film. The fact that the film exists right now for people who might need it, I think it's a very beautiful thing.”

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2016 is nearly over, thus concluding the first big year for virtual reality headsets. The long-awaited Oculus Rift from Facebook arrived back in March, followed soon after by the HTC Vive in April, and several months later by PlayStation VR in October. 

But are consumers actually buying these things? Is anyone using VR?

It's still early days, but the latest projections from gaming and VR analytics firm SuperData Research aren't reassuring. Here's the breakdown, from best to worst, for projected sales in 2016:

• Sony's PlayStation VR — 745,434
• HTC Vive — 450,083
• Facebook's Oculus Rift 355,088

Sony's clearly got a major lead, and that's largely due to price.

PlayStation VR starts at $400 and works with any PlayStation 4 — still the most popular game console, with over 40 million sold worldwide. Not one of those 40+ million people? The PlayStation 4 costs $300, and is often on sale for $249 this holiday season. Moreover, PlayStation VR a simple plug-and-play setup, making it more accessible to the average consumer.

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In the case of the Oculus Rift ($600) and the HTC Vive ($800), there's the added cost of a high-end gaming PC on top of the higher initial price. At minimum, you're spending $500 to power the Oculus Rift headset; more realistically, you need to spend more like $1,000 to use the Rift or Vive with all VR experiences. And if you're spending that much, you're likely looking for the "room-scale" VR experience that both headsets offer — the ability to walk around and interact in VR. That combination of high-price, technical prowess, and extra space is assuredly limiting the market potential for Facebook and HTC's headsets.

On the flip side, Samsung's phone-powered Gear VR headsets are looking to surpass 2.3 million in sales in 2016. Though the headset offers a less immersive experience than the trio of high-end headsets from Sony, Facebook, and HTC, Gear VR costs just $100 and works with Samsung's Galaxy phones. Slap your phone in and you're off to the virtual races!  

As prices come down across the next year, consumers could start migrating from entry-level headsets like the Gear VR to Sony's PlayStation VR. But it'll take a marketing push from Sony, which SuperData Research's director of research Stephanie Llamas says is still missing.

"Supply inconsistencies and lack of marketing have put [Sony] behind their potential. They did not offer any first-party deals this weekend [Black Friday/Cyber Monday], restock bundles or market the device, pushing instead for the PlayStation 4 Pro," Llamas says.

If 2016 is the first big year of VR, perhaps 2017 will be the year where it takes root.

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Leah Remini revealed some startling aspects of Scientology during a Reddit AMA promoting the premiere of her new A&E series, "Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath," on Tuesday.

The AMA covered the actress' 30 years of experiences as a member of the Church of Scientology and her ongoing mission since leaving the church behind to expose the organization for its alleged mistreatment, abuses, and suppression of its members and those who have left the church.

"Greater awareness. Exposing the truths. Not letting [Scientology] continue to ... bully people into silence and submission," Remini said during the Reddit AMA of her reasons for speaking out against the organization.

Remini also recognized the courage of networks moving forward with projects such as the A&E series and last year's revelatory documentary by Alex Gibney for HBO, "Going Clear."

"I think they did an amazing job and they cleared the path for people like me to speak about it," she said of "Going Clear." "HBO was very brave in taking it on. As is A&E, as it will be the first network to do a full series about it."

In fact, Remini recently demanded that Scientology pay her $1.5 million in damages for allegedly trying to ruin her reputation in Hollywood and for allegedly trying to get the A&E series pulled from airing.

During the Reddit AMA, Remini dropped some bombs about the organization — from her claims about Tom Cruise's role in the church to the disappointing secret awaiting members who reach a top level of its program, according to her.

Here are nine of the most shocking alleged secrets Remini revealed about Scientology in the AMA:

1. The church considers Tom Cruise its "messiah."

Remini: "Parishioners believe that [Cruise] is single-handedly changing the planet because that is what the 'Church' is telling them."

2. Celebrities receive great levels of preferential treatment, sometimes at the expense of other church members.

Remini: "We had special course rooms in separate parts of the buildings. Any complaint we had about the outside world was met with agreement from the 'Church.' We were serviced differently, we had supervisors doing courses in our homes, giving special schedules to celebrities. Staff was interrogated by the Church. Often times there were Sea Org members working for celebrities in their homes, personally working for them. I know of one celeb who had a sea org member working in their home and sea org members were averaging $25/week. The labor laws don't apply to any church therefore they were made to work ungodly hours, forced into interrogations if making human mistakes around the celebrity."

3. The end of "The Bridge," Scientology's metaphor for crossing from being a normal human to "the higher plateau of existence," is disappointing.

Remini: "When you reach the top of The Bridge (OTP 8) you will be told that God is lie for [Scientology creator L. Ron Hubbard], and there are more levels ahead, that will cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars. There is no end to Scientology."

4. Remini said she paid the Church of Scientology "millions" of dollars while a member.

5. How Scientology handles "brainwashing" of members so they avoid outside reporting about the organization.

Remini: "Because very early on in the brainwashing process, L. Ron Hubbard's 'technology' teaches you that outside sources (i.e. The news, the Internet, books, magazines) are ALL LIES and hellbent on destroying something decent like Scientology. The AMA, and APA, and all 'governments' do not give Scientology its due because they have a vested interest in not healing people and not helping people. And Scientology is in the business of making people better. So Scientologists are taught that their safest bet is to get their info from the only true decent people...and those are Scientologists. And if they look on the internet, if they read time mag, they will be met with punishment at their expense. And, as a Scientologist...you have to confess that you've read outside materials, and that will be met with punishment at your expense."

6. Scientologists don't believe in mental illnesses.

Remini: "The 'Church' doctrine thinks that fields of psychology and psychiatry are a sham. They deny mental illness and afflictions. They promote that you can heal your psychosomatic issues with their 'technology.' They will get in the way of people taking medications. They will prevent people from getting the real medical help that they need. and in some cases have caused suicides because of it. Scientology is mentally abusive because we are all taught that we are responsible for everything."

7. Every meeting is recorded and videotaped to use against members if they decide to speak out.

Remini: "Every 'therapy room' is equipped with cameras and listening devices, as admitted by the 'Church.' Do they use it for blackmail? No, they use it to discredit you when you speak out."

8. Children don't get any breaks for being young.

Remini: "[Children are seen] as old spirits in little bodies who have returned to Scientology... children are treated as adults."

9. Scientologists are banned from seeking legal justice against another member, even in cases of abuse.

Remini: "When I was 16 and working for a 'senior Scientologist' who was in his late 30's, he had sex with a 16 year old friend of ours. And the 'Church' handled it internally. All abuses are dealt within the 'Church' as it is an enemy act in the 'Church' to prosecute another member."

Read Remini's full Reddit AMA here.

"Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath" premieres Tuesday at 10 p.m. on A&E.

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Regardless of how the first ever standalone "Star Wars" movie, "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," performs when it opens December 16, there will be no sequel, according to Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy.

She made the statement in a recent piece for Empire (caught by /Film) and then was backed up by Industrial Light and Magic CCO John Knoll who says the movie was always intended to be self-contained.

This will only increase the speculation that Jyn Erso (played by Felicity Jones) and her crew who set out to steal the plans for the Death Star are not going to make it back alive (or not all of them, anyway).

Since the beginning, reports about the movie have suggested that it has a darker tone than the movies in the regular "Star Wars" saga. Kennedy has compared "Rogue One" to a war movie like "The Dirty Dozen" (most of them didn't make it back in that movie, too).

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Disappointed gamers have failed to get advertising for the universe exploration game "No Man's Sky" banned after the UK advertising regulator failed to find evidence it was "misleading."

"No Man's Sky" has not been well-received by many people in the gaming community since it launched in August.

Players have previously vented their frustrations that the game's initial ad campaign from developer Hello Games, overpromised the features that appear in the final product.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received 23 complaints about the game's storefront on the online gaming platform Steam. The page included trailers, screenshots, and text description of the game.

The complainants argued that "some of the game content was not as depicted or described" and challenged whether the ad was "misleading."

In response to the complaints, Hello Games explained that unlike many other games, each users' experience is very different so it "would be difficult to recreate exact scenes from the ad." The game content is generated by an algorithm that determined the probability of a player encountering a specific creature, physiology, or one of its "18 quintillion planets" and each player starts on their own unique planet, so the outcome of each game is almost infinite.

Hello Games added that the ad was produced using a gaming PC of "average specification" and the quality of the graphics shown in the ad was "inferior" to the graphics the game was capable of exhibiting. The company also responded to specific complaints about the way in which "No Man's Sky's" gameplay was advertised.

The ASA took into account several specific complaints in its investigation. (You can read the full ruling here.)

It acknowledged that the user interface design and aiming system had "undergone cosmetic changes" since the footage for the trailers was recorded. However, the ASA stated in its ruling: "We did not consider that these elements would affect a consumer's decision to purchase the game, as they were superficial and incidental components in relation to the core gameplay mechanics and features." 

Other complaints referred to buildings, structures, battles, ships, and animals that appear in the footage but allegedly not in the game — or at least looked substantially different in the final product. However, on each occasion, the ASA found the objects in the final game were similar enough to the advertising and were therefore unlikely to mislead people.

Some complaints referred to the trailers and screenshots exaggerating the quality of the in-game graphics. However, the ASA considered that consumers would "generally be aware" that the graphical output of the game would be affected by the specifications of their computers.

Another complained-about issue was text in the ads that stated: "Fly smoothly from deep space to planetary surfaces, with no loading screens and no limits." Players took issue with the statement because the game displays a "warp" sequence when traveling between systems — similar to a loading screen. 

The ASA took into account that the screen only displayed when traveling between systems — not traveling from space to a planet's surface, for example, which is more of a common occurrence in the game — and that it didn't represent an interruption to the gameplay experience. Again, the ASA ruled that this was not a misleading element of "No Man's Sky's" marketing.

The ASA concluded in its ruling:

"We understood that the screenshots and videos in the ad had been created using game footage, and acknowledged that in doing this the advertisers would aim to show the product in the best light. Taking into account the above points, we considered that the overall impression of the ad was consistent with gameplay and the footage provided, both in terms of that captured by Hello Games and by third parties, and that it did not exaggerate the expected player experience of the game. We therefore concluded that the ad did not breach the Code."

Hello Games announced its first major update to "No Man's Sky" earlier this month, adding more content and improving existing features.

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After more than a year on the sidelines, Jeremy Clarkson is back with a new car show on Amazon Prime called "The Grand Tour".

Clarkson, along with long-time co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May, launched "The Grand Tour" prior to the Thanksgiving holiday to rave reviews.

In fact, the first episode quickly became the most watch piece of programming in the history of Amazon Prime.

Incredibly, Amazon's second-best performing show could only muster 1/3 of "The Grand Tour's" ratings, The Wrap reported.

Recently, the bombastic TV host and long-time newspaper columnist sat down with Business Insider in New York while doing press for his new show. We had a brief chat about supercars, electric cars, and why James May should feel small and stupid.

Benjamin Zhang: Let's talk about cars. One of our favorites this year has been the new Acura/Honda NSX. 

Jeremy Clarkson: I'm annoyed to have to say that James May has driven it for the show, Richard Hammond has been in it, and I've only been looking at it. I've haven't had a go in it, not yet, but I will very soon

It's a very good looking car, I just hope its better than Honda's Formula One effort. (In reference to Honda's recent struggles as McLaren's engine supplier in the Formula One racing series.)

BZ: In the past you haven't been a huge of fan of Tesla. Has your thinking changed at all?

JC: No, because I will never be a fan plug-in electric cars. You have brown-outs in New York already when you have people charging (phones) up, and running lights. America is barely coping with its demand for electricity. Same in Britain. We're 5% and you're 16% under here in the US. So, when people start charging their cars up, where's the power going to come?

Who knows.

You'll have to build more power stations. Is that environmentally friendly?

The answer is hydrogen. But the more plug-in electric cars that come along, the less demand there is for carmakers to get off their asses and start making fuel cell cars — which is where we must go. We must have fuel cell cars. The world has to have them.

BZ: Back to something more traditional. What are your thoughts on the new Ferrari 488 GTB? Is it an awesome car or a turbocharged abomination?

JC: The 488 is a fabulous car — make no mistake about that. And anyone who owns a 458 ( The 488's predecessor) now would feel small and stupid because they bought the wrong car... James May.

BZ: Yes, James May was extolling the merits of his Ferrari 458 Speciale earlier today.

JC: Yes I know, he's the man who once drove it 26 mph. He'd certainly never go any faster than that.

Ferrari— difficult company to deal with, but extremely good cars when you get ahold of them. They are really, really good. In fact, I know of nothing, really, as a driver's machine that gets close to that.

BZ: What about McLaren?

JC:  It does, but it's got these extremely clever electronic roll bars and matches Ferrari in terms of all of the outright figures. But I don't know. There's a fizz, James May calls it, (that you feel) when you drive a Ferrari. I know what he means and you just don't get that from a McLaren. The spirit of (long-time McLaren boss and well-known neat-freak) Ron Dennis is in every single thing you touch in there.

BZ: Not for much longer I guess.

JC: Yes, I know and that's slightly amazing. (Dennis was removed from is position of McLaren Technology Group's CEO last month)

There's this slightly antiseptic feel to the (McLaren). You know when you see someone with really neat hair and you want to lean over and just do that. (Clarkson stretches his arm out and pretends to mess up my hair.) It's what you want to do to a McLaren. You want to just rub mud on its face. It would make the car better and more human.

BZ: On that note, what do you think of the new generation Audi A4?

JC: I haven't bothered with it. The last Audi I drove was the TT, which was excellent. I drive a different car every week, why the bloody hell would I make one of them an A4.

BZ: Well, what about American cars? Have they gotten any better in your opinion?

JC: Yeah, much better. The new Corvettes are truly fantastic. You couldn't possibly have one in Europe because you'd look like a moron. But, it's a fabulous car. In fact, the last two generations have been extremely impressive.

BZ: Even for everyday road use?

JC: Yeah. Very very good. And I'd also say that, for the same exact reasons I was discussing with you on the McLaren, the Mustang is also a really good car.

We a drove the Roush one in the opening scene (of the first episode) and that was a really good car.

BZ: You had a (Henrik Fisker-designed, modified Mustang) Rocket as well right?

JC: Yeah, but the Roush was better. The Roush was the best of those three.

BZ: Even better than the Shelby GT350?

JC: I thought so. The last Roush I drove — based on the last model Mustang — was (on the track) at Willow Springs. I was just absolutely bowled over by it. Roush are really good. Never met them. Don't even know who they are or where they are, but I've driven two of their cars now and both of them have been incredibly impressive.

BZ: Thank you very much.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Tuesday said he wished he had the chance to run against Donald Trump.

In an interview on "Conan," Sanders said that while he was unsure whether he would've defeated Trump, early hypothetical head-to-head matchups showed him far ahead.

"What the polling showed that early on was all the polls nationally and statewide, I was beating him by much larger margins, much more than Secretary Clinton, but you know, then you go through a three-month campaign," Sanders told host Conan O'Brien.

"All I can tell you Conan: I wish to God I'd had the opportunity. I would've loved to have run against him," he added.

During his appearance Tuesday night, Sanders also ruminated on the nature of Trump's election victory. He suggested that Trump used rhetoric to inflame racial and ethnic tensions but successfully branded himself as an outsider who could relate to many voters' frustration with established industries.

"What Trump managed to do was convince people that he was the antiestablishment candidate at the time when people really are not happy with the economic establishment, the political establishment, and the media establishment," Sanders said. "I think, sadly, much of what he said will not be true — he will not keep his word."

He added: "Not everyone who voted for Trump is a racist or a sexist or a homophobe. There are a lot of people who are hurting very badly. They saw him as a glimmer of hope. That's why they voted for him."

Now a prominent member of Senate Democratic leadership, Sanders has emerged as a vocal critic of the forces that shape the electoral process that allowed Trump to win the general election.

Appearing on CNN earlier this week, Sanders called for the Electoral College to be "reexamined." He also became one of the first prominent politicians to endorse Rep. Keith Ellison for chair of the Democratic National Committee to "take on the political establishment and billionaire class."

The Vermont senator's appearance on Conan came just days after he lamented that it was "a bit strange" he had to appear on late-night comedy shows "in order to have five minutes to talk about serious issues."

"What does that say about American political culture, that you have to go on a comedy show?" Sanders told GQ. "I'm old-fashioned, and I think that politics and public policy are serious issues that need serious discussion, and as a nation I think we need a revolution in media."

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Trevor Noah has a new way of looking at media coverage of President-elect Donald Trump, and it's not very flattering for Trump.

As Noah showed on Tuesday night's "Daily Show," Trump recently engaged in some hostility with the press, retweeting a teenager who called CNN's Jeff Zeleny "pathetic." The tactic reminded Noah of something else he's seen.

"Have you ever argued with a toddler? Because if you have, you probably lost that argument, or you killed the toddler. Either way, you didn't win the argument," Noah said. "Because you can't win an argument against a toddler. Toddlers will say the most outlandish s---."

This led Noah to make his case about how journalists have been dealing with Trump.

"Over the course of this election season, we've come to realize that President-elect Trump might have the mind of a toddler. And if you think about it, it makes sense," Noah said.

He elaborated that Trump and toddlers both enjoy "building things, attention, and grabbing things they're not supposed to."

But when it comes to his relationship to journalists and other politicians, according to Noah, what makes Trump stand apart is that "facts mean nothig to him. Trump has no relationship to facts."

Noah brought up the fact that Trump recently proposed on Twitter that for people who burn the US flag, "there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!" As many journalists pointed out, burning of the flag is protected by the Constitution according to the Supreme Court, but Noah believes that since everyone spent so much time debating flag-burning, Trump ultimately "wins."

So Noah thinks there may be another way for media to treat Trump.

"One thing the news could try is treating Trump like the todlder he is," the host said. "You don't argue with a toddler if you want to win. Don't amplify the toddler's voice, because you'll just get trapped in the toddler's world. Rather, just keep asking the toddler to elaborate, because logic is the downfall of every toddler."

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