Midphase
H18, coming later this year, CPU based renderer with a highly responsive IPR similar to Arnold. I believe the backbone is utilizing Pixar's Hydra. No GPU (yet), but should be considerably faster and more responsive than Mantra. Same materials pipeline as Mantra.
I think that's all we know for now. I assume an H18 release in the Fall similar to the H17 release last year.
pixar Hydra inside houdini?
that sounds cool!
But, is there any documentation about it?