From my perspective, I'm not seeing anything in the press releases that catches my eye as a breakthrough development. It would appear that the only real improvements have been made with the rendering engine. In my case, these improvements are irrelevant, as I do all of my rendering within 3ds MAX. OpenGL will be nice, and we'll have to see what sort of "new and improved" interface they've come up with. My concerns are more with improvments with dynamic hair and cloth (which they have not made any mention of).