Paolo (Pret-A-3D) says it will be very affordable and will work with free LuxRender and free DAZ Studio. V2.0 will support animation. And it should also work with the LuxRender version coming soon that will work with CPU + GPU + network rendering. LuxRender can also work with the Amazon cloud if you need more processing power. A couple renders they posted were done in a couple hours on a single PC which is not bad for non-GPU unbiased renders. Octane Render is still much faster for now using the GPU and some of those folks let it run for a time - but their longer renders over 20 minutes are usually for scenes with little light. I've seen great Octane renders that were under 10 minutes. Some of Paolo's samples look really nice... his render of a Stonemason kit looks great (and it looked really good only after a few minutes rendering in the video sample). And there's a night time render that looks very good. The renders will depend on good textures, though, so all the really airbrushed/solarized textures I constantly see will look horrible like they do now, but nice textures will look nice right away with no shader play. The really great thing is how quickly it converts existing textures in a scene and you can still make adjustments to those or completely swap them out with better LuxRender textures.

He's contemplating making a version for Carrara and might if sales go well for the DAZ Studio version. He's not a fan of the way Carrara's plug-in setup is, but he doesn't have problems with it like he does with Poser, unfortunately. Hope some folks figure out how to do something similar for Poser, though, too.