Virtual Christmas spectacular constructed with 30 million+ Minecraft blocks, enhanced by NVIDIA RTX
- Global technology brand NVIDIA has launched the world’s largest winter wonderland experience – all built in Minecraft with RTX
- Utilising NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX GPUs, real time ray-tracing stunningly transforms this interactive Santa’s grotto and Winter Wonderland experience
- Spanning a virtual space of 38 acres, the NVIDIA RTX Winter World took a specialist artist 300 hours to build and is 4 times the size of the biggest real-world Christmas Market in Austria
- The world features interactive rides, food stands, attractions and Santa’s grotto, including Santa himself for visitors to engage and interact with
- Partnering with Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity) on its Home to Christmas campaign, visitors can see a recreation of Great Ormond Street Hospital in the virtual world and donate to the campaign digitally in-game via a QR code
- Download the NVIDIA RTX Winter World in Minecraft today at planetminecraft.com
Today the world’s largest winter festival opens its virtual doors for the public to experience the Christmas festivities – all in a Minecraft world.
The NVIDIA RTX Winter World, commissioned by NVIDIA and built by Minecraft world builder, Ushio Tokura (Dr_Bond), will give all families across the globe a festive immersive experience to explore. It will also offer an opportunity to raise funds for NVIDIA’s charity partner, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity).
Utilising NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), real-time ray tracing stunningly simulates the physical behaviour of light, enabling reflections, shadows and other realistic lighting effects, as visitors are transported to a world offering a full winter wonderland and Santa’s grotto experience with Santa himself for visitors to engage and interact with.
The world includes roller coasters, a Christmas village, frozen ice-skating lake, penguin postal service and petting zoo tent, with playable storylines and quests. Christmas film aficionados should also keep a lookout for Easter Egg homages to famous festive flicks such as Elf, It’s A Wonderful Life and The Polar Express.
Covering an area with a representative size of 155,000 square metres or 38 acres, the virtual wonderland is 4 times the size of the biggest real-world Christmas Market in Austria and took Ushio Tokura over 300 hours and more than 30 million individual blocks to complete.
The world also features a full recreation of the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) building and visitors will be able to donate via an in-game QR code to contribute to the charity’s ‘Home for Christmas’ fundraising campaign, which seeks to bring seriously ill children one step closer to home. This includes, through funding state-of-the-art medical technology, pioneering research programmes into treatments and cures for rare conditions and patient and family support services. Money raised will also help bring Christmas to the hospital for children from across the UK whose treatment needs to continue over the festive season, as well as funding important services for GOSH staff working to care for patients and their families. Visitors can also donate directly via this link.
NVIDIA spokesperson said: “With the power utilised from our RTX GPU, our artist Ushio Tokura has created an incredibly vast and visually pleasing world that we are thrilled to bring to families across the globe for a truly unique, virtual Christmas experience. It has also been a pleasure to support the vital work our friends at Great Ormond Street do. We hope to raise as much as possible to help their efforts this Christmas.”
Liz Tait, Director of Fundraising at GOSH Charity said: “We’re thrilled to be partnering with NVIDIA who have created this amazing experience for families across the world. We are so grateful for any donation’s visitors to this incredibly festive winter wonderland, and those joining the charity stream, are able to make. Every child should have the chance to be at home with their families for Christmas Day, by donating to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity this Christmas, you’ll be helping fund vital resources that can help get seriously ill children one step closer to home as well as helping to bring that special Christmas magic to children at GOSH whose treatment needs to continue over the festive season. Thank you.”
Families can download the NVIDIA RTX Winter World in Minecraft today at planetminecraft.com.
