Curious Labs might make everyone's concerns over Koz's hair null and void anyway if they can perfect their dynamic hair for the release of version 6 (longshot). The future and longevity of Poser will inevitably depend on it's animation capabilities. Dynamic hair is a step in the right direction, but in it's current form on P5, it just doesn't work very well in animation. However, with the right render settings, it can look as real as Koz's hair, and of course is much more versitile. Curious Labs knows dynamic hair and cloth are the future of their product (actually, they're OLD news for most professional 3D users, but it's the future for Poser), and turning back now from their current progress would be a serious mistake. I'm looking for CL to improve dramatically on their dynamic hair for Poser 6, and even moreso in future upgrades, and I look for Daz Studio to offer dynamic hair plugins for it's program when it gets out of beta. And believe me folks, when and if they perfect it's use, dynamic hair will eventually drive the demand/value of these model-based hair products to rock-bottom. One possible scenerio I can envision is this: All CL needs to do is create a version of the program that's stable and flexible enough to be used by a major and well-known FX studio in their exsisting pipeline, and then mention it's use in a successful motion picture. Once something like that happens (if that happens) then all hell will break loose. You'll have folks who would have never dreamed of buying Poser suddenly buying multiple network licenses, and making CL a very wealthy company. What will that mean to you? It could very well mean that Daz will suddenly be the small fish in the ocean (unless their D/S can catch up fast enough), as companies with much deeper pockets (who were previously unheard of by the Poser community) start to create 3rd party content for Poser to meet the demands of high-paying studios. Think that scenerio is too far-fetched? Similar situations have happened before. 3dsMax used to be scoffed at by users of Autodesk and Wavefront products until later versions, which packed more features, were picked up and used in the creation of some films and highly successful video games. Suddenly it's the top selling 3D modeling software in the world, and to this day still boasts the largest range of 3rd party plugins of any 3D application. I could envision something similar happening with Curious Labs if they get their act together for animators in future versions. OR another possibility is... Daz Studio could blow Poser away and put CL out of business, and truly become the monopoly you all fear. ;-)

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.