Minecraft's Ray-tracing Beta Arrives On PC This Week

Ten years since its launch, and Minecraft remains one of the most popular games of our times and now, it's getting a new look in the form of Ray Tracing. This is the best in gaming graphics. It simulates the physical behavior and light to give a game high-quality cinematic rendering.

NVIDIA announced that it was developing realistic graphics for Minecraft in a previous year. They will be accessible to Windows users starting on April 16th. The beta version is currently in beta. It will feature the familiar Minecraft single-player experience that includes shadows and reflections that are ray-traced as well as lighting and custom realistic materials. Six new RTX worlds were created by community members. Minecraft rlcraft servers , which include Aquatic Adventure, Imagination Island and Neon District, are available for free on the Minecraft Marketplace for players running Minecraft Windows 10.

The visually-focused release comes with physically-based rendering (PBR) which means surfaces will appear a lot more realistic, whether they're rough matte stone or glossy smooth ice and to aid in the grunt work needed to run all this in the background as well, there's NVIDIA's DLS 2.0. This updated version of NVIDIA's AI upscaler utilizes RTX tensor cores to take an image with a lower resolution and then upscale it to the desired resolution, which is said to do a much better job than the original feature that was launched with NVIDIA's RTX cards.

Of course, since it's still in beta, you should expect a few issues at this point. Some features aren't available in the beta, for example multiplayer realms, third-party servers, or cross-play. There are some design issues and certain dimensions haven't been optimized for the ray tracing. Banners are black, and slime mobs do not have faces. These are things that will be addressed in the near future. The official release date hasn't yet been confirmed. Developers would like to hear from the community about the beta release.