The Chaos Group, creators of the V-Ray rendering system, has just announced that they are acquiring US company ASGVIS.  ASGVIS is well known in the VRay community as the creators of the VRay for Rhino and VRay for SketchUp plugins, so it’s an obvious move for Chaos and great news for the community at large.

A working relationship with the two companies began in 2005 when ASGVIS adapted Chaos Group’s flagship rendering plug-in, V-Ray*, to work with the modeling software applications Rhinoceros* and SketchUp*. In addition to developing these two products, ASGVIS resold Chaos Group’s V-Ray for 3ds Max* and V-Ray for Maya*. Joining the two development teams under Chaos Group will ensure consistency among the V-Ray products.

Officially renamed “Chaos Group USA”, everything will remain the same for now (same staff, same products).  Over time, they’ll evaluate individual products for inclusion into their mainstream offerings.

via Chaos Group / Chaos Software official website – home – V-Ray® – award winning, production-ready 3D rendering solutions.