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It was seven months ago that NVIDIA announced it was working to give Minecraft a makeover, thanks to the ray tracing hardware acceleration hardware built into its GeForce RTX line of graphics cards.

Before Mojang released Vibrant Visuals on Minecraft Bedrock, they released support for shaders and high-fidelity textures using RTX technology by Nvidia. After RTX (or ray tracing) support was ...

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 ...

Back in August, Mojang and NVIDIA announced that ray tracing was on the way to Minecraft. At the time, the companies said that ray tracing features would launch in beta at some point in 2020, then ...

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Samit Sarkar (he/him) is Polygon’s deputy managing editor. He has more than 17 years of experience covering video games, movies, television, and technology. As part of the beta, Minecraft with RTX ...