SideFX released Houdini 15.5 with an improved workflow for modelers, more accurate crowd controls, a new VR lens camera for rendering to industry-standard formats and support for third party rendering in Houdini Indie.

3Dconnexion has introduced the mouse designed with CAD professionals in mind. It has 7 buttons in total, including dedicated middle mouse button, 8200dpi / 1000Hz laser sensor, quickZoom, smart scroll wheel and gesture/radial menu button.

Version 1.6 of open-source unbiased renderer LuxRender for Blender and 3dsMax was released recently.

Recently Corona Renderer 1.4 for 3dsMax was released.

NextLimit announced the launch of RealFlow for Cinema 4D in June.

The end of April Autodesk team introduced new features and upgrades implemented for the next release of 3ds Max 2017.

iToosoft has released RailClone 2.6 with brand new features and fixes to improve speed, increase usability.

NVIDIA demonstrated at its annual GPU Technology Conference a series of new products and technologies focused on deep learning, virtual reality and self-driving cars. Iray VR capabilities will allow to create environments that let users strap on a headset and peer around photorealistic virtual reality.

The MODO 10 Series delivers valuable new feature sets in a series of three installments, - The Foundary developers have announced recently.

OTOY announces availability of OctaneRender 3 and OctaneRender Cloud.

If you ever experienced difficulties with importing and exporting files between ZBrush, Maya and 3DS Max, you would be interested to know about Styx - the script package that makes faster importing-exporting files between the programs.

Latest update of Lumion 6.3 now allows to demonstrate 3D models from Sketchup and Revit on Gear VR and Oculus Rift DK2 (Oculus CV1 support will follow soon).