In recent years the old high street retail sector has been moving online, this could be seen as them just catching up with what we have been doing here for the past twenty years but where they are ahead is in exploiting smartphone technology. Smartphones have a large user base but do not have the power to render scenes. They could handle basic scene composition and offload the rendering to back end cloud like AWS. This would allow the move to a browser based online subscription service like Amazon Prime where there is regular content available built in and extra costs for perceived enhanced products - ie a combined subscription and micro transaction model. Having the entire product online will allow access to the AR and VR markets if they develop providing content makers access to new users. I don't think the bods at SM and DAZ will be concerned with figure development, they will be more interested in how to jump from a shrinking PC/Mac market to the developing smartphone area.