I was happy to pay for Reality. It will provide me a viable, time-saving route to using the free Lux render engine, relative to using the Pose2Lux method, which was going to involve more work on my part...

...and I'm interested to play around with other render engines.

No way I'd fork out for Octane currently. So Lux, via Reality, is an affordable alternative.

It won't replace my use of Firefly... not at present for sure. My workflow using Firefly is too established... and I'm very happy with my results from that.

Indeed, for simply rendering human figures / skin realism, I don't see Reality / Lux as offering any major advantage over what Poser can now do with SSS. Not for what I'm after.

But in other areas... e.g. caustics, through glass... or getting photo-realist results (i.e. simulating real world photography), as opposed to the more illustrative hyper-realist look I tend to shoot for with Poser, at present... I think Lux/Reality will be a great combo to have at my disposal.

As a mac user, the GPU acceleration in Lux is of major interest certainly... looking forward to seeing some further developments on that front.