Boring and wrong… I very much doubt they were using ray tracing.
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For me, the most unrealistic part of the chapter was just how long it took everyone to realize Fujiwara had been murdered. “Hey Fujiwara, there’s a serial killer on the loose and your avatar has a knife in it’s back. Why did you stop moving?” 
Mori seems really fascinated by 3d objects clipping through each other. Most people in the late 90s probably wouldn’t be too familiar with that, though the Ayanami Rei reference tells me most of his readers are nerds anyway 
. I’m sure this will tie into some philosophical stuff that I will skim through in a later chapter.
Realtime ray tracing would be unrealistic for the 90s, but so would a full-body VR machine. And if you want to show a whiskey glass, ray tracing would give much better results than other options (even early ray tracing in the 70s could do plausible refraction/reflection/shadows). We just have to accept that Nanocraft has absurdly fast computers.
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Nicole, look! Such timing!
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Hahaha that looks really great 
Modern cellphones are just sooo powerful 
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