Ray-tracing is one of those next-gen buzzwords that's difficult to get excited about. It doesn't help, of course, that it sounds like something Captain Kirk would shout from the command chair of the ...

We've had plenty of Minecraft shaders to give the sandbox the sheen it deserves, but ray tracing is on another level. Jacob explored some of the Nvidia Minecraft RTX builds earlier this year and said ...

Bruna is a contributor from Brazil. Although she's an advertising executive, she has been working as a pop culture journalist since 2004, and before Game Rant she worked as a contributor for TechTudo, ...

Ray Tracing is a feature in Minecraft that when enabled amplifies the graphics of the game. It is developed by NVIDIA in order to increase lighting, shadows, and more in the game. However, not ...

When you think of Minecraft, you probably imagine blocky graphics and simplistic textures. But the recent beta launch of ray tracing support for NVIDIA's RTX graphics cards transforms it into an ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Minecraft on Windows 10 just turned on the first beta adding ray tracing with RTX. To commemorate ...

We’ve already discussed the technical details in our Minecraft beta announcement coverage. Hit that up to learn what you’ll need to run this new-look Minecraft. (Spoiler: A GeForce RTX 20-series GPU ...

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 ...

As I reported in my previous post (Immersive Realism Comes To Minecraft Through Ray Tracing From Nvidia), the addition of Nvidia’s RTX graphics ray tracing technology transformed the cartoon-like ...

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 ...

If you missed the beta or other examples in 2020, ray tracing allows for realistic, physics-based lighting in games. Minecraft traditionally shirks realism in favor of a pixel art, sandbox fantasy ...