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Consider me highly dubious that any VR based on a headset, even one built into sunglasses will be more than a niche product anytime remotely soon. 

Maybe Apple will crack the form factor that at least makes it into a mildly successful niche, but this just isn't going to be a runaway success, because you can't get a runaway success in a market that most people won't actually buy into. Maybe it will be more successful than 3D TVs (I do wish I had a 3D TV to watch A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, but I can't think of much else I would watch on one).

Maybe it will (finally!) get Apple seriously into supporting their platforms for top-notch gaming, but if so, the Apple TV and Macs will probably benefit more from that than the market for VR headsets. 

Protecting in a child's devices, as Apple hints at, does seem like the better way to go. Frankly, that would probably be better in general. Either provide evidence to Apple or Microsoft that you are an adult, which would then remove a flag on the internet suggesting you are a child, or provide a very easy and obvious way for parents to create child accounts on their devices. Would it be possible to work around this? Sure. Determined kids are going to find ways around most things, but it will work better than what we do now. It would likely also likely still require government intervention to mandate broad use of "I am a child" indicators, and governments might have to standardize how privacy must work for child accounts. This won't stop CSAM, but is likely a better a lot better for detecting and preventing adult-to-child sexting and actual grooming (rather than whatever social conservatives think "grooming" is these days). It does seem unlikely as a path, though. Governments really do want access to unencrypted data, and it still true that CSAM fears remains their preferred way to get there.

M68000 said:

I’m not getting the point of an always on display… why would anybody want that?  Would hope it is optional in the settings

OLED displays can just light a few pixels without drawing much power. So, an always on display could display the time and date or give battery or connection status without draining the battery. 

Chances are high it will be an optional setting. But, why would you want to turn it off? 

foregoneconclusion said:

bobolicious said:

I cannot ever remember a monitor needing firmware upgrades... ?

Do an internet search for "difficulty updating firmware dell monitor" and prepare to be amazed...

I have a Sony camera flash for which there is a firmware update. Updating the camera flash, the HVL-F45RM, requires connecting it to a camera that is compatible with the firmware update, and may require that the camera itself be updated to the right firmware level first. This is for a camera flash, something which mostly just puts out a bunch of light in a very short period of time. 
I have tried three different cameras, including updating one to the exact camera version specified, and I have tried this on a Mac, on a Windows virtual machine on my Mac, on a Windows Server virtual machine on my Mac, and I eventually tried this on a real machine running Windows that I borrowed from an in-law. 

Silly things have firmware upgrades these days. And it is clear that for many manufacturers, the firmware update processes themselves are an afterthought. In Sony's case it isn't clear that the word "thought" should come into play at all, "after" or otherwise. Perhaps Dell monitors are the same. That is certainly a lot of listed case numbers for monitor update problems. But hey, at least they document their bugs. That's so far beyond Sony that Sony can't even see it in the distance. 

From what I can tell, for 4K video editing, this is noticeably better than most other (single) monitors you can get for less than the price of the Apple Pro Display XDR, since you can have plenty of controls on the screen while still displaying your video at 100%. It is also brighter (often quite a bit brighter) than all but a small number of "HDR" 4K monitors, and is 20% brighter (and way less obviously "cheap") than the LG 5K. It is frustrating that it isn't brighter.

If Apple had made mini LED 27" 5K monitor for $3000 that would be a steal. My guess is that they either couldn't figure out how to do that or didn't consider that price point viable, so they were stuck making the best non-mini LED monitor they could make given what was available. I kind of wonder if Apple was pushing hard internally for something far better but just couldn't pull it off and this monitor was a fall-back built from components they could source easily enough. 

Apple did make a number of frustrating decisions for this monitor, though frankly the dumbest is the power cord. Were they going to do the MagSafe thing but ran out of magnets? Since Neodymium is mined in California, that doesn't make a lot of sense. The rest of the choices don't seem all that unreasonable even if we all hoped for better. At least they don't seem that unreasonable relative to the Apple of recent years, so some of the pushback could be a proxy for frustration at many of Apple's design choices over the last decade. 

There is the ASUS ROG 32" 4K mini-LED that can do 1400 nits and 98% of DCI-P3. It is currently priced at nearly $3000, which kind of validates the cost problem Apple likely had for upping its large display technology. It is also 4K instead of 5K, and is targeted at gaming rather than video editing. What are the downsides, if any, of a gaming-oriented monitor for video editing? I guess if I stuck to a 4K display, at least there wouldn't be up-sampling when viewing at full screen, so maybe that would actually be better.

What I am otherwise considering is using the Studio Display for most editing and my 14" MBP screen for fine color correction. Or maybe I just need to get a real color correcting second monitor, but I'm not looking forward to having to fit that into my editing space. Or maybe I do have to spring for the Pro Display XDR. Or maybe I should just stop worrying about exceeding 500 or 600 nits, though mini LED also matters for black points.