Following reports that raytracing options had been added to a Preview build of
Microsoft says raytracing was included in Minecraft update by mistake – Video Games Chronicle
The Verge’s senior editor Tom Warren tweeted earlier this week that the latest Preview version of Minecraft (which is only available to Xbox Insider members) had added raytracing options. These will now likely be removed.
Xbox owners have been waiting some time for ray tracing in Minecraft. Microsoft originally announced in 2019 that it would be bringing ray tracing support to the game, but at the time this was only related to the posted a blog article two years ago which gave an in-depth look at the tech inside the then-unreleased Xbox Series X. This included a description of ray tracing, with screenshots from Minecraft used as an example to show what the Xbox Series X could do with ray tracing turned on.
There has been no official announcement on when ray tracing will come to Minecraft on
