Applies deformations such as mountain, path deform, ripple, skew, spherify, stretch, taper, twist, vortex, wave.
Advantages:
1. Much faster performance than older deformers like Twist SOP (2x).
2. More intuitive to use.
3. Unified GUI and workflow.
4. Clear and non-obstructive viewport guides.
5. Ability to use weights.
6. Ability to use world, local and object transforms.
5. SOP deformers use generic low-level VOP deformers at their core, that are much more versatile than their SOP versions.
6. VOP deformers can deform points, particles, pixels, voxels, UVs and any data that represents a 3d coordinate. So you can use these deformers as a processor without creating any explicit geometry.
Video is outdated but shows some basic functionality.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r1g4q1ygoi0bzry/Mountain_SOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qx7pxs3xp6jvyne/Mountain_VOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rhhpvvt4h23mbfc/PathDeform_SOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wvhglb5syufa9px/Ripple_SOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p39llx7iq2llmlf/Ripple_VOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xmg9cm98g59soc6/Skew_SOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3fb2qu500cwg06y/Skew_VOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xga5pr7i4tlkapu/Spherify_SOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/83f8ydq82vhues5/Spherify_VOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o8w1ebt0fr9ek25/Stretch_SOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qslv59872sbhq73/Stretch_VOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ayrtyry9x87r4zc/Taper_SOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ec41um6telrsbx/Taper_VOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cvsitry1hlb2755/Twist_SOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rmx3nurof7yo5pp/Twist_VOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/go3dzz1mq9sshrl/Vortex_SOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/naq33rtgkqj6nc0/Vortex_VOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xjvlul2a4naqvxu/Wave_SOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/op9t27jrti9jhig/Wave_VOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tramfdqbupbz33v/SplineBox_SOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/40jukgbavz8dwlt/CurveFrame_SOP_Animatrix.otl?dl=1