"Minecraft" will soon be prettier even without ray tracing: The developers from Microsoft studio Mojang have announced Vibrant Visuals, a comprehensive graphics update for the creative game.

Ray tracing alone makes a huge difference in Minecraft. Matthew Smith / Digital Trends The update is backward compatible with all existing worlds, too — all you have to do is enable it in settings.

There's still no true next-gen Minecraft with major advancements like ray tracing, not for the PlayStation 5 and certainly not for the Xbox Series X|S. There are still a lot of players holding out ...

Forward-looking: Recent big game releases appear to confirm that ray tracing and path tracing are the future of graphics rendering. However, these techniques remain prohibitively computationally ...