Thanks, Lobo!  That's interesting.  I have to agree with the article that I'm surprised not to see this software used more in the fashion industry, where it seems to have the best "fit". I can imagine it used as virtual runway models for clothing designers, or as a tool to see how clothes will fit on a virtual clone of yourself.   Those TBS billboards of the baseball player look very underwhelming, like lifeless wooden mannequins.  I'm guessing they were created in early versions of the software, back in the 1990's or so?

I can see the real benefit of Poser being a great plugin or addon to software like Blender.  MakeHuman on steroids.  Would be great if they created it as a plugin to other 3D applicaitons, where we could easily modify and rig realistic characters, and then animate and render them in our own scenes.  I'm not really intersted in modeling my own human characters, I like to model cars, buildings, and things like that most of all, so that would be very handy to be able to use my models made in Blender with a Poser plugin, where the character puppets could interact.