Minecraft Mistakenly Gets Ray Tracing On Xbox, and Microsoft Was Quick To Take It Away
Minecraft on the new-gen Xbox consoles briefly got support for ray tracing, but it was quickly taken away by Microsoft.
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Minecraft on the new-gen Xbox consoles briefly got support for ray tracing, but it was quickly taken away by Microsoft.
Back in 2020, Mojang and Nvidia teamed up to implement full path-traced ray-tracing in Minecraft, releasing a bespoke version of the game on PC called Minecraft RTX. Recently, ray tracing showed up in the preview version of Minecraft for Xbox Series X/S consoles, but Mojang has since removed this, claiming that it does not have …
Earlier this week, Xbox Insiders reported they were testing an "optimized" Minecraft build with ray tracing options. The inclusion indicated that Mojang would have RT support ready...
Following reports that raytracing options had been added to a Preview build of Minecraft on Xbox, Microsoft has confirmed that the options were included in the game “inadvertently”.
Microsoft has admitted that the inclusion of ray tracing support in Minecraft for Xbox consoles was a mistake.