Looking for the Minecraft ray tracing shader? Real-time lighting effects are a highlight of high-fidelity games like Battlefield V and Metro Exodus, but they're also available in the chunky world of ...

Is There Minecraft Ray-Tracing on Xbox? Technically, yes, there is, but you need to do a bit of playing around, noted below. Ray-tracing is available on the Minecraft Preview build of the game on Xbox ...

In modern gaming, lighting is king and there’s never been a more wondrous thing than ray tracing. Ray tracing is an old, but now widely, available technology that realistically renders light and ...

Ray tracing is becoming extremely demanding among developers and gamers. Although it's a very good feature to elevate the usual gaming experience, its requirements are no joke. In "Minecraft," this ...

Minecraft's Super Duper Graphics pack may be no more, but a more impressive upgrade is on its way. Minecraft is getting real-time ray tracing - or more accurately, path tracing. This is part of a new ...

After months of teases and previews, the biggest advancement in visual effects in years is finally coming to the biggest PC game ever. Real-time ray tracing is coming to Minecraft for Windows 10 this ...

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Minecraft is pretty simple, and there’s not a whole lot going on visually — most enemies are blocks, and even 11 years ago the game could run on low-end computers. But the Dec. 8 update changes that ...

This is where things start to get a bit messy. Both Microsoft's new implementation and the Nvidia RTX demo are based on DXR, or DirectX Ray Tracing, an extension of DX12. That makes sense for this new ...

After further clarification from Nvidia, the following article has been updated to reflect that the announcement was of three new game titles, not nine. This brings the total number of games ...

In August last year, Mojang and Nvidia announced ray tracing support for Minecraft, coming in as a replacement for the canceled Super Duper Graphics Pack, but only for PC users. That ray tracing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. To date, NVIDIA’s RTX Ray Tracing technology has been ...