This Week, Minecraft's Raytracing Beta Beta Is Now Available On PC

Ten years since its release, and Minecraft continues to be one of the most loved games of the present It's now getting a revamp with ray tracing. This is the ultimate in gaming graphics. It emulates the physical behavior and lighting to give a game an immersive, cinematic-like rendering.

NVIDIA first announced that it was working on realistic visuals for Minecraft last year , and now they'll be rolling out to Windows players on April 16th. Currently in beta, the release will be the familiar Minecraft single-player experience, except with ray-traced reflections, shadows lighting, and custom realistic materials. In addition, you'll be able explore six brand-new RTX worlds that were created by community creators. These worlds that include Aquatic Adventure, Imagination Island and Neon District, are available for free in the Minecraft Marketplace for players running Minecraft Windows 10.

Additionally, the release that is focused on visuals brings physically-based rendering (PBR) which means surfaces are set to look more realistic, whether they're rough matte stone or glossy smooth ice and to aid in the grunt work needed to run all this, there's NVIDIA's DLSS 2.0. NVIDIA's AI upscaler 2.0 uses RTX Tensor Centers to take images with lower resolution and upscale it at the desired resolution. It's a new version that NVIDIA released along with NVIDIA RTX cards.

It is still in beta and there could be some glitches. rock it like a hurricane doesn't include some features, such as multiplayer realms, third-party servers or cross-play. There are still design issues and dimensions that can't be optimized for Ray-tracing. Banners are still black and slime mobs don't have an appearance. These are things which will be corrected in due time. Official release date has not yet been announced. Developers want to hear from the community regarding the beta version.