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NVIDIA VR Funhouse: Achievements, Cheats, Tips & Tricks

Earlier this year graphic card manufacturer NVIDIA revealed its first foray into videogame development with the release of VR Funhouse for HTC Vive. Then when Oculus Touch launched this month the company added support for the motion controllers. It was only last week that NVIDIA released a new update, bringing with it 45 Steam Achievements, all of which VRFocus has listed below.

VR Funhouse is available to download for free. Nine mini-games are available as standard, including Clown Painter, Whack-A-Mole, Cannon Skeet and Hot Shot Basketball, with more available via Steam Workshop.

VR Funhouse screenshot

Full Achievement List:

  • Shooting Gallery: Small Prize!
    • You won the small prize! Oh the disappointment!
  • That’s using your head!
    • Break an object with your head.
  • Shooting Gallery: Medium Prize!
    • You won the medium prize! Better luck next time!
  •  Cannon Skeet: Small Prize!
    • You won the small prize! Oh the disappointment!
  • Balloon Knight: Small Prize!
    • You won the small prize! Oh the disappointment!
  • Whack-a-mole: Small Prize!
    • You won the small prize! Oh the disappointment!
  • There’s something in my eye!
    • Get paint on your face in Clown Painter!
  • He Split it in Twain!
    • Hit one arrow, with another! Robin, is that you?
  • Cannon Skeet: Medium Prize!
    • You won the medium prize! Better luck next time!
  • Clown Puncher: Small Prize!
    • You won the small prize! Oh the disappointment!
  • Clown Painter: Small Prize!
    • You won the small prize! Oh the disappointment!
  • Whack-a-mole: Medium Prize!
    • You won the medium prize! Better luck next time!
  • Wallwalker: Small Prize!
    • You won the small prize! Oh the disappointment!
  • Fire Archer: Small Prize!
    • You won the small prize! Oh the disappointment!
  • Balloon Knight: Medium Prize!
    • You won the medium prize! Better luck next time!
  •  Shooting Gallery: Large Prize!
    • You won the big prize! It’s so fluffy!
  • Basketball: Small Prize!
    • You won the small prize! Oh the disappointment!
  • Didn’t your mole used to be on the other side?
    • Hit the farthest moles at the same time.
  • It slices! It dices!
    • Get a score of 15 on balloon knight in 10 seconds.
  • Fire Archer: Medium Prize!
    • You won the medium prize! Better luck next time!
  • Don’t Cross the Streams!
    • Pop two balloons within a second of each other in Clown Painter.
  • POW! Right in the kisser!
    • Hit a clown head with a HUGE amount of force!
  • TPS reports got you down?
    • Throw your mallet outside the arena in disgust. You’re done here!
  • Brickwall!
    • Pick up a basketball and never make a basket. You need to practice!
  • Wallwalker: Medium Prize!
    • You won the medium prize! Better luck next time!
  • Clown Painter: Medium Prize!
    • You won the medium prize! Better luck next time!
  • Cannon Skeet: Large Prize!
    • You won the big prize! It’s so fluffy!
  • Inconceivable!
    • Hit the 4 point planks all in a row. Inconceivable!
  • Fire Archer: Large Prize!
    • You won the big prize! It’s so fluffy!
  • Basketball: Medium Prize!
    • You won the medium prize! Better luck next time!
  • An Archery Contest?!
    • Hit every single plank in the archery level in 15 seconds!
  • Clown Painter: Large Prize!
    • You scored the biggest prize! It’s so fluffy!
  • Clown Puncher: Medium Prize!
    • You won the medium prize! Better luck next time!
  • Eww! It’s sticky!
    • Get 5 wallwalkers to stick in a row!
  • Whack-a-mole: Large Prize!
    • You won the big prize! It’s so fluffy!
  • Gots the Cheats!
    • Dunk a basketball!
  • Clown Puncher: Large Prize!
    • You won the big prize! It’s so fluffy!
  • Persistence of Vision.
    • Watch credits roll through two times.
  • House Of Pain!
    • Hit a mole over 50 times after the timer runs out! What did they ever do to you?!
  • Clown-a-nator!
    • Large Prize achievement on all levels!
  • Wallwalker: Large Prize!
    • You won the big prize! It’s so fluffy!
  • Mole-a-tarian.
    • Resist punching any moles during a playthrough. We know you want to do it.
  • Dead Eye!
    • Get a score of 35 with only 35 shots!
  • Basketball: Large Prize!
    • You won the big prize! It’s so fluffy!
  • Balloon Knight: Large Prize!
    • You won the big prize! It’s so fluffy!
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Enter the World of NVIDIA’s VR Funhouse on Oculus Touch

For VR enthusiasts – especially Oculus Rift owners – the news today has all been about the launch of Oculus Touch. Those that have pre-ordered the new motion controllers may have already started to received their orders, or will do over the next week or so, and will be lining up titles to download straight away. Oculus has ensured several free experiences are available on day one, with videogames such as Dead and Buried, Quill (Beta) and Medium, along with Epic Games’ announcement of Bullet Train, and pre-order bonuses The Unspoken and VR Sports Challenge. That’s not all as NVIDIA has released VR Funhouse for free as well.

The videogame originally launched for HTC Vive back in July, and in October NVIDIA confirmed support for Oculus Touch. Along with releasing VR Funhouse, the company also revealed new Game Ready Drivers for Oculus Touch and Oculus Touch launch titles.

VR Funhouse screenshot

NVIDIA VR Funhouse immerses gamers in a virtual carnival full games to try their hand at, with 9 unique mini-games:

  • Clown Painter: Splatter clowns with squirt guns filled with green goo.
  • Fire Archer: Break out a bow and fiery arrows to set targets ablaze.
  • Whack-A-Mole:  Smash those pesky moles with your favorite mallet.
  • Balloon Knight: Fill the carnival with confetti as you pop colorful balloons with swords.
  • Mole Boxing: Take a swing at the zany, smiley moles and knock them silly.
  • Shooting Gallery: Test your skill shooting all sorts of targets with a pair of pistols.
  • Cannon Skeet: Take aim at targets being shot out of a moving cannon, and fire away.
  • Wall Walker Toss:  Perfect your aim by flinging delightful Wall Walkers at a massive target.
  • Hot Shot Basketball: Shoot some hoops and make it rain baskets to get the high score!

As with any virtual reality (VR) title players will need a compatible graphics card, but some may not be a suitable as others for VR Funhouse. On its Steam page NVIDIA recommends the following cards at various graphics settings:

Low Graphics Setting

  • GeForce GTX 1070
  • GeForce GTX 1060
  • GeForce GTX 980Ti

Medium Graphics Setting

  • GeForce GTX 1080

High Graphics Setting

  • GeForce GTX 1080 or greater*
  • GeForce GTX 980Ti in SLI or greater*
  • *Dedicated PhysX card: GTX 980Ti or greater

Some users using the older GeForce GTX 970 cards – recommended as the minimum by Oculus – may have difficulty running VR Funhouse properly.

For all the latest NVIDIA VR news, keep reading VRFocus.

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NVIDIA VR Funhouse to Support Oculus Touch and Brings in Two New Levels

There are continuous updates and add-ons being created for NVIDIA’s VR Funhouse application which can be used and utilised by any VR developer to better their creations. It has now come from a blog post that during the Oculus Connect 3 event that starts today and end on Friday that the application can be used with Oculus Touch controllers, and there will also be two new levels added.

The aim of adding in support for the Oculus Touch is so that “more gamers and developers can join in the fun” after 100,000 gamers have downloaded VR Funhouse since July.

VR Funhouse screenshot

The two ew levels are Wall Walker Toss and HotShot Basketball which can be seen in the Official Oculus Touch Trailer below.

Victoria Rege, Head of Global Marketing at NVIDIA and writer of the post, said: “It’s one that’s packed with more fun than ever: with our latest updates you’ll be able to bounce between nine different mini-games. The game — which you can download for free — lets you take on carnival-inspired challenges such as tossing basketballs, popping balloons, whacking moles, firing flaming arrows, and shooting all sorts of targets from a cartoonish cannon.”

More announcements will inevitably come over the course of the next three days while Oculus Connect 3 commences, for both NVIDIA’s Funhouse and the Oculus Touch controllers.

For more on the latest news, updates, and features from NVIDIA and in the general world of VR, make sure to check back with VRFocus.

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NVIDIA Releases VR Funhouse Mod Kit Along With Five Playable Mods, All Open Sourced

Today NVIDIA has revealed some juicy additions to its open sourced VR Funhouse application, described as “the world’s most advanced VR game”, which allows users to create more of their own experiences using its GameWorks, PhysX, and VRWorks technology. There is a new editor, mods, and availability to use all of this as of today.

During a press conference yesterday, Victoria Rege, who is involved with NVIDIA’s VR ventures and has produced work as a product marketer, shared the news that there is now a mod kit available for VR Funhouse, which allows users to access the game’s Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) blueprints and assets to create what they will via Steam Workshop. “The idea is that people can create their own levels, they can create their own actual games and experiences using everything that will be provided.”

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As well as this new editor, there are also five mods added to VR Funhouse itself that expand on the already available games: Super Whack-A-Mole; Zero-Gravity Goo, where the water that was shot into the clowns’ mouths is replaced with green sludge; Big Top; Great Moles of Fire, where their hair is replaced with fire; and Tommy Gun, where they replaced the pistols with tommy guns for the shooting gallery. These are all available to download for free on the NVIDIA VR Funhouse application, which is also free on Steam.

“It’s not necessarily about building new levels for Funhouse, but we hope that happens. It’s more about enabling the community to build more realistic, more physically accurate types of games that people can enjoy,” said Rege.

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VRFocus asked whether or not additional mods would become more frequent, to which Rege replied: “We’re never short of ideas, I actually have lots of requests for Dane, and we are actually going to be working on some downloadable content, some future games that will be announced later in time, so we’re still working on some things. I can’t comment on how many, but we’re definitely going to build and explore.”

As well as these two big bits of news, it is also shared that the full source code for VR Funhouse is available on Github to create their own experiences.

There’s no doubting that NVIDIA VR Funhouse has been a hit, as there have been 100,000 downloads – which is what is estimated to be the number of Vives that have been bought. Rege also went on to say that one of the leading developers who has used VR Funhouse is Sulphur Studios, creators of Everest VR, for its realistic snow physics.

For more on the latest news, updates, and features in the world of VR, make sure to check back with VRFocus.