Terragen 4, the software to render beautifully realistic landscapes, skies or other natural environments, is in free open beta since the beginning of July.

All creatives around the globe are invited to submit their productions for the animago AWARD 2016. This year's 12 categories include "Best Visualization", "Architecture Prize", special "Anniversary Prize" and also the new "Best Motion Design" category and, of course, the "Best Young Production". Registration is possible until 30 June 2016 and free of any costs.

Following a 6-month public beta phase GRAPHISOFT has released its intelligent Grasshopper–ARCHICAD Live Connection.

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.