Minecraft RTX beta: a look at the surreal future of gaming

The future is here, but it will take some time before it falls into big business.

Playing RTX beta for Minecraft it requires an Nvidia RTX card – not an expensive upgrade – and the game may not be a good indicator of what you can expect from ray tracking in the short term. Nvidia and Microsoft have managed to squeeze in a lot of very interesting ray detection applications Minecraft because it's … well, Minecraft.

It doesn't take much energy to render those webpages blocked, leaving a host of computer conditions to focus on ray tracing. Finding this kind of lighting credibility in a more modern, traditional gameplay can take a lot more energy to work than you get from the finest plans.

That being said, it plays Minecraft with the RTX beta is a very effective way to get your mind crazy, which I'm sure no one is willing to try on April 20. So let's dive into what you get in beta, and why fans who might not have a Nvidia GeForce RTX card should pay attention to what's happening here .

Why does raycraft tracking in Minecraft look so good

Tracking Ray, boiled to a simple definition, is a way to treat light in games as it is handled in real life. How light interacts with different objects and space, and how that light interacts with other light in space, is a complex process to imitate, which requires large amounts of energy.

That is why ray tracing is currently only available on Nvidia RTX cards (which provides hardware ray tracking speed), and why so few games – Control you are one of them – use technology well. You can find a more complete description in our ray tracking extension, if you want to know more.

I applied the beta and played around with the levels provided by Nvidia that were designed to show what following a ray can bring Minecraft. It was only a few hours before my over-saturated eyes disappeared and I had to take a break, but those early experiences gave me many reasons. Minecraft it's a divisive game – it's a world made up of webs, after all – and there's nothing logical about how the world appears on your screen. I used to see it as a simple extension of the natural world.

Minecraft never tried to face facts; it is always clear that you are looking for something input, something that is designed to extract basic structures and ideas. Building blocks of Minecraft it doesn't look like anything, so your imagination tends to fill in the gaps, allowing it to look like everything else. That distance from reality, and the space you create in your mind, is part of the game's existing appeal.

So what happens when you combine MinecraftBuilt-in art with the most sensible light embedded in a video game? Surprisingly.

The Video acquired via Digital Included in this story gives you a great look at some of the potential features of this beta, but watching a video doesn't compare to playing for yourself.

Seeing how light plays out the above, and watching the imagination and communication of this light, goes a long way in tricking your brain into thinking that what you are seeing is real. This created a psychological conflict as I played it: I've always thought that I was looking for a material that would not exist, and that was because the effects of ray tracing effects kind of hyperrealism. (After playing with the settings, I was able to keep things close to 60 frames per second at 1080p with my RTX 2070)

Light does exactly what would be expected for real light to occur in these situations, creating a kind of mysterious valley that is pleasant rather than uncomfortable. It sounds like something out of the world of Minecraft they were kicked out of the computer and placed in the real world somehow. My brain is not accustomed to seeing brightly-colored surfaces and light in a way that looks so real that it's almost moving.

To see how light shines through, or is drawn to, each material is intriguing. Land of Minecraft it suddenly looks like it's playing with real-life rules, and the result creates a kind of disinterest in the beauty between the illusion and reality that's hard to explain, but fun to watch, as my mind revolves around what I see.

But the impact of the synthetic materials on lighting in each room is not a real game changer here – the way light communicates itself creates amazing and beautiful effects. Walking under a bright colored auditorium, and watching to see that light come out on it and interacting with other hallways to make a fly's impact on the fly, is, of course. This is not the effect boiled down to it; this is a real-time light that is used to create color combinations, each shade looks as real as you expected.

This version of Minecraft it is still in beta, and using one of the most powerful graphics cards available now to make a game that looks amazing feels real fast-paced is now something new. But after spending a few hours with this version of Minecraft, I'm more confident than ever about the future of ray-tracing in making our games look more realistic and more convincing. This has disappointed my eye in a way that I have never experienced, even in new games with all the settings included, and it makes me excited for the future.

If the ray tracing is done correctly it can Minecraft look at this "real," I can't wait to see what this level of care can bring to other games – though I'm afraid of what kind of hardware you will need to use throughout the scale of the gameplay.