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When Facebook held the very first Oculus Gaming Showcase in April 2021 there was lots of excitement regarding what new videogames might appear. In fact, most of the news was focused on updates for existing titles. Only one was actually brand new, Chuhai Labs’
Carve Snowboarding, gaining plenty of interest considering the studios’ CEO Giles Goddard worked on
1080° Snowboarding for the N64 back in the ‘90s. Bringing that knowledge into VR,
Carve Snowboarding offers up a tantalising slice of downhill goodness.
The Oculus Quest library isn’t short of sports titles but what it is completely devoid of is anything related to snowboarding. That’s probably because trying to create mechanics which naturally involve your feet isn’t particularly easy. While stick controls work perfectly fine for normal, flatscreen snowboarding videogames that method of input just won’t cut it in VR. So the biggest worry was always going to be how