Microsoft starts testing Minecraft ray tracing on Xbox
by Tom Warren from The Verge - All Posts on (#5XM5M)
Microsoft has started testing ray tracing support for Minecraft on Xbox Series X / S consoles. A new Minecraft Preview build is available to Xbox Insiders, and it includes limited ray tracing support. The latest test build is also marked as optimized for Xbox Series X / S, suggesting that a next-gen patch is coming soon.
I've been testing out the latest Minecraft Preview, and have been able to successfully enable some ray tracing support. It's not a simple switch, though. Minecraft's ray tracing is enabled through additional resource packs, and there's no easy way of downloading and installing these in the Xbox version of the game right now. There's a workaround, though. You can host a Minecraft session on a Windows PC with the packs...