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EON Reality Inc. is offering its EON Raptor 5.5 as a free 3dsMax plug-in “that enables you to display and interact with 3ds Max content in real-time with intuitive controls,” and “explore and share your models in full virtual reality,” according to a press release. The system seems to layer a user-friendly GUI-based point-and-click interface over 3ds Max’s authoring system, allowing users to not only create Web-based or standalone 3D environments, but share and interact with them as well. I’m not clear on how this could be made to interoperate on a broader basis, but you can get a free 30-day trial of 3ds Max at the Autodesk link above, so it will be interesting to see what the more ambitious 3pointDers out there come up with.