Microsoft and Mojang have officially unveiled Minecraft's biggest graphical overhaul and explained how it will change players' gameplay.

All of AMD’s current-generation graphics cards support ray tracing and feature support ... These are commonly referred to as shaders, or CUDA cores for Nvidia graphics cards.

This requirement has restricted programming of the necessary shaders to GPU experts only. A visualization system that dynamically generates GPU shaders for multi-volume ray casting from a ...