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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Ray tracing will remain a gimmick unless it's adopted across all cards.

So it'll always be a gimmick.
gpt
Nah eventually it will be standard, as games keep pushing for photorealism. I think gamers and the industry right now are just content with how good things look now though, so it will probably be a few years before people want the "next level" enough to make a big push for it happen.

Ray tracing is honestly the future of realism in real time graphics and there's no avoiding it in the long term.