After three years of continued research The Foundry announce the release of OCULA 3.0, which is a significant upgrade to their stereo plugin toolset for the NUKE compositing system. This release forces their position as industry leader in stereo 3D production. OCULA 3.0 brings new tools to help fix mis-focused camera pairs and retime in stereo as well as a range of workflow tweaks and improvements to speed up day‐to-day OCULA use dramatically.  OCULA 3.0 is available immediately and works on the same platforms as NUKE/NUKEX. 

Except release of Maxwell Render Suite 2.6 Next Limit Technologies also announces the release of Maxwell for Google SketchUp. This is a brand new product offering SketchUp users the benefits of advanced rendering in a custom built package for FREE! Maxwell for Google SketchUp is a self-contained (standalone) package containing its own render engine specifically designed for and fully integrated into Google SketchUp. This means that no other application is launched when you render your scene, and no exporting will be needed. 

This wee we announced that NVIDIA release new version of their PhysX plug-in for 3ds Max and now NVIDIA already updated also this  PhysX plug-in for Maya. This version has support for PhysX 3.1 and also for APEX Clothing 1.1 and has also compatibility with other plug-ins that use PhysX directly (e.g. Thinking Particles). Release of 2.7 PhysX plug-in for Maya brings new unified exporter and improved PhysX shelf GUI. More details yoo will find, when you follow link at the end of article. 

Almost 2 month ago NVIDIA relaesed version 2.61 of PhysX plug-in for 3ds Max (2009 – 2012, 32- and 64-bit). And already now they announce release of new version 2.7. Plug-in now features two different simulation engines – PhysX SDK 2.8.4 and new PhysX SDK 3.1, with an option to switch between them seemlesly, without necessity to restart 3ds Max. This new release is compatibility with other plug-ins that use PhysX directly (e.g. Thinking Particles) and also fixed some bugs, which are described in link at the end of this article.