Minecraft Ray-Tracing For Xbox Series X/S Reportedly Being Rolled Out
Xbox Series X/S users may be due to get ray-tracing for Minecraft soon, with the option now being rolled out to some Xbox Insiders. Ray-tracing is becoming a staple feature of current-generation games, giving users a more realistic gaming experience in part thanks to the power of the latest hardware from Microsoft and Sony.
Ray-tracing has become an expected feature in the current generation of gaming, as the rendering method uses algorithms to trace paths of light to create incredibly realistic lighting effects to create real-time light reflections, refractions, and shadows within games. Microsoft had announced in 2019 that ray-tracing would be brought to Minecraft, however, at that time the announcement was only in relation to the PC version. Xbox had used screenshots of Minecraft with ray-tracing enabled as part of its promotional material in the run-up to the Xbox Series X's release, to showcase what ray-tracing could do in games.
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The Verge’s senior editor Tom Warren reported on Twitter that the latest preview version of Minecraft has added ray-tracing options, sharing a video of his settings when running Minecraft on an Xbox console. The clip shows an example of how these features can be activated within the Video settings. According to Warren, ray-tracing can be toggled on and off, and the render distance can be set by the number of chunks. Upon setting the render distance from 8 chunks to 12, there is a noticeable difference in visual quality, and when turning ray-tracing off entirely again, the usually vibrantly-colored in-game world ofMinecraft appears almost duller in comparison.
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