While access to ray tracing (RTX) and physics-based rendering (PBR) can be modded into Minecraft Java to create more appealing visuals, Bedrock Edition's previews on Windows PCs have access to ...

It's not as dramatic or thorough as full-blown ray tracing is, but these features also scale across platforms to be accessible to as many players as possible.

Minecraft has supported ray tracing since an update in December 2020. We'll tell you how to turn it on with your NVIDIA RTX graphics card and where to use it.

Ray tracing in Minecraft (Image via u/King_Kr on Reddit) Ray tracing is a very prominent add-on feature for Minecraft, and it is finally coming to Xbox.

There won't be any enhanced features or ray tracing, just a native version that better takes advantage of the PlayStation 5 than Sony's PS4 backward compatibility layer.

Microsoft used Minecraft to demonstrate the transformative visual effects of ray-tracing made possible on Series X back in March 2020, ahead of the console's release.