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The open-source edition of RV is out. See how it differs from the commercial edition of the Academy Award-winning shot review tool.

Thursday, January 19th, 2023

Updated: only "core components" of the award-winning image viewer and shot playback tool will be open-sourced, not the full product.

Thursday, August 11th, 2022

VFX image viewer and playback system gets support for new open standard OpenTimelineIO. Sales of perpetual licences discontinued.

Tuesday, December 14th, 2021

Image viewer and shot playback tool for VFX and animation gets support for Python 3, new long-term Available Previous Versions.

Thursday, November 5th, 2020

Image viewer and playback tool provided with Shotgun gets new prorgressive loading system to speed up work on long playlists.

Saturday, July 18th, 2020

Subscription customers to get free file storage plus online rendering, collaboration and analyis tools.

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Upload files to Project QuickShare for collaborators, then embed viewing links in your webpages.

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Project Nitrous offers cloud-based Dropbox-like service aimed at designers and architects.

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Upload reference images to Project Photofly to convert them to a free, downloadable 3D model.

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Check out the new features in the production renderer, including new shaders for non-photorealistic and motion graphics-style effects.

Thursday, February 12th, 2026

Second major round of layoffs at the 3ds Max and Maya developer in a year will affect sales staff and is not "an effort to replace people with AI".

Monday, January 26th, 2026

Check out the changes to the production renderer, including updates to hair shading, bloom effects, and Global Light Sampling.

Thursday, November 13th, 2025

3D software for architectural visualization and VFX gets updates to the Conform Modifier, Material Switcher and USD workflows.

Wednesday, November 12th, 2025

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