Cycles and Alembic

Hi All, not sure is the right place where to post, if there’s any better place please feel free to move this.
I saw the news about blender finally supporting Alembic natively and I was wondering if there was any room for having cycles (standalone) able to digest alembic files directly. I think this would open it to great opportunities to be started using it outside of blender echosystem.

Any thought ?
Cheers.
L.

Not just outside of Blender. IIRC there was talk about using Alembic as a standin/proxy format for Cycles. Cycles would have an object type that takes a material, an alembic filepath, and a transform and it just loads the alembic file on its own, without ever having to load the object in Blender itself.

exactly that, do you know if there has been any though or eta about that ?
cheers.
L.