The official release is planned for the beginning of December

Chaos Group announces the new V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max is in final Beta stage starting November 10. The new version of the Chaos Group’s core product is an important step not only in setting up the trends in the rendering technology, but most of all in responding to the needs of the industry for a faster, interactive and reliable tool.
V-Ray 2.0 is a complete rendering solution, which combines the power of the distinguished V-Ray rendering engine with the flexibility and unprecedented speed of the interactive rendering system V-Ray RT, now running on GPUs.

V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max Beta program is open to all V-Ray users who have been among the first to upgrade to the new version, customers who own bundle “Three in One”, as well as all who have preordered V-Ray 2.0. All customers with preorders and upgrades will be able to access the BETA and contribute to its final feature list until the official release planned for December 6.

The latest version of V-Ray offers a full list of great new features, like VRayCarPaintMtl – material with accurate flakes simulation, VRayLightSelect-render element to extract the contribution of individual lights, VRayLensEffects- render effect for producing glow and glare with support for obstacle images and diffraction, VRayStereoRig- controller for easy stereoscopic setup, V-Ray RT and V-Ray RT GPU available and many others. The full list of key features could be found here.

Preorders and upgrades are accepted since November 1 and the official release is planned for December 6.