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

Ten years have passed since its release and Minecraft remains one of the most played games of our times and now, it's getting a new look with Ray Tracing. This is the most advanced form of gaming graphics.  this is what awesome looks like  emulates the physical behavior and light to give games high-quality cinematic rendering.

NVIDIA first revealed it was working on realistic visuals for Minecraft in the year 2000. Now they're scheduled to release to Windows users on April 16th. The beta release is currently in beta. It will include the familiar Minecraft single-player experience, with shadows and reflections ray-traced by rays as well as lighting and custom realistic materials. Six brand new RTX worlds have been designed by the community. These include Aquatic Adventure and Imagination Island, as well as Neon District. They are free for Minecraft Windows 10 gamers who use the Minecraft Marketplace.

The visually-focused release also includes physically-based rendering (PBR). This means that surfaces will look more realistic regardless of whether they are rough matte stone or glossy smooth Ice. NVIDIA's NVIDIA DLSS 2.0 is available to help in the heavy lifting to power all this. NVIDIA's AI upscaler 2.0 uses RTX tensor centers to take images with lower resolution and then increase it to the desired resolution. It's a new version that NVIDIA launched along with NVIDIA RTX cards.

Of course, since it's in beta, you should expect a few issues at this point. Some features haven't been included in the beta, for instance, such as multiplayer realms, third-party servers or cross-play. There are still some design flaws, and some dimensions aren't yet optimized for ray tracing. Meanwhile, banners are black and slime mobs have no face - the kind of things that will be ironed out in the near future. The release date has not yet been set. Developers would like to hear from the community about the beta release.