Will Student License will launch with Octane2.0 upgrade?

[locky]

Will Student License will launch with Octane2.0 upgrade?
My classmates and I are hoping to spend to learn the new version of Octane, please

[raul_pier]

Or how much will cost to upgrade a Student License to Octane2.0
Kindly advise.
R.

[Goldorak]

We're looking to provide a student upgrade path to 2.0 after the commercial release is finalized. We haven't announced pricing yet, but hope to have more information around the time that 2.0 is released publicly.

[raul_pier]

That will be great. Looking forward
Kind regards
R.

[sammie865]

Any news on this?

Would be really nice to have a discounted student version for 2.0, since a lot of ppl are NEEDING 2.0 due to lack of hardware support in V1.2.

[prehabitat]

Noone was asking for my input, but I'll throw it in there anyway.

I bought a bit of software at student discounts back in the day and it was a big part of being able to get myself to a professional standard & being ahead of the competition. I'm all for it.

several different models:
-Yearly (paid/non-paid) licence which expires in march (around the time summer semester is well over & student ID's expire).cons: decent admin involved in checking ID's I'd think
-Paid perpetual personal learning edition (PLE) type licence cons: can deter the poorest of students: although most university student waste their fair share on cash on sh!t.. they likely wont be on newest hardware so 1.2v would suffice - also they could compete to win a free student licence or something?
-Free student licence w/ non-commercial clause & limited res etcI personally think the free - current version
licence has the least going for it - you'll get stacks of students getting license just for the sake of it
-Cheaper 'NO commercial clause' licence - similar to McNeel, Adobe, AsuniCAD offerings - I bought all of these when I could, still use mine regularly if working from home/etc and have bought adobe & Rhino licences for 2 different workplaces now.cons: consult your business manager.. I design buildings...

anyway... food for thought...

[Goldorak]

We will revisit v2 student licences when v3 is out, but we are hoping to try something even more ambitious with OctaneVR. After OVR is released, there will be a three month window where all users on the forum will have access to a complete, unrestricted final 2.22.2 OR engine through OVR, and a number of selected plug-ins will also support it.

[moritzw]

We will revisit v2 student licences when v3 is out, but we are hoping to try something even more ambitious with OctaneVR. After OVR is released, there will be a three month window where all users on the forum will have access to a complete, unrestricted final 2.22.2 OR engine through OVR, and a number of selected plug-ins will also support it.

This sounds great and I'm really looking forward to the open April - July testphase! Will this be restricted to rendering VR Content, or are we going to be able to use standard Octane Rendering features as well? Specifically, as a masters student, I'm really looking forward to dive more into GPU Rendering this summer and getting some ground covered with Octane 3 in C4D.

Oh and since I'm new here - Hi, I'm Mo, glad to join the community