Tips and tricks to get the most out of VRChat

VRChat is a social app available on Steam, and while it'south fabricated for VR — it works with Windows Mixed Reality (WMR), HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift — anyone with a standard monitor, keyboard, and mouse can also bring together in on the fun.

Similar near social VR apps, there'southward a lot going on all at once. To assistance yous have a nifty feel during your stay here, follow these tips and tricks.

Skip the Hub when entering VRChat

Instead of logging into the main Hub each time you enter VRChat, you can instead launch into any world y'all'd like. Here's how to do information technology.

Navigate to www.vrchat.internet.
Click Login.
Click Register if you don't already have a VRChat username. Otherwise, log in as usual.
Click the Worlds push button.
Correct-click a earth you want to launch straight into.
Click Copy link. You will at present have a link that looks something like www.vrchat.cyberspace/launch?worldid=world_4893bf-43824-fhjdsfb-4y32&ref=vrchat.com on your clipboard. The only part yous need from this URL is what'south between the = and the ?.
Launch Steam.
Click Library.
Right-click VRChat.
Click Properties.
Click Set launch options.
Type vrchat://launch?id=
Paste the code you copied earlier from the website.
Click OK.
Click Close.

You will now be launched straight into whichever world y'all chose each time y'all launch VRChat. To alter back to the Hub, just remove the line of code from launch options.

Do not launch VRCHat while wearing your VR headset

VRChat launch options

If yous're looking to go into VRChat with a VR headset, be certain to leave it adjacent to you before launching the app. If the app thinks your headset is currently in use when launching, it will for any reason launch into the standard PC version and you will not be able to utilise your motion controllers.

This is an app that's currently in Steam Early on Access, and this is one of the bugs you'll have to endure for the foreseeable future.

If you're wondering how to launch into the standard PC version, you'll be shown a pocket-sized menu when y'all click Play where yous can choose from SteamVR or PC.

Take the tutorial when switching from standard monitor to VR

VRChat tutorial

Did you start your VRChat life on a standard monitor? Are you lot now thinking about getting into the VR version, only don't know how it all works?

Fret non, for the switch is painless. No matter how long y'all've spent in the regular version of VRChat, switching over to using a VR headset volition still bring up the thorough VR tutorial.

Here you'll be shown how to navigate, how to interact with objects, and how to use the Quick Menu. Later on about 10 minutes, you lot'll be set to experience VRChat the way it was meant to be played.

Find custom avatars online

Avatars

One of the coolest things about VRChat is the ability to create and upload your ain avatars. This is accomplished with a VRChat SDK that many people have become quite skilled with.

If, even so, you'd rather not spend your time creating your own avatar, you tin can find some custom ones online that are upward for grabs.

Bank check out the VRChat Wikia folio for a bunch of pre-made models, and likewise keep an heart on the VRChat Discussions page over at Steam.

Find avatars in custom worlds

Instead of finding avatars outside of VRChat, you tin notice them within certain worlds inside VRChat.

While in VRChat, open your Quick Card and click the Worlds push. From here y'all can search annihilation you want, but in this example search for the discussion avatar.

Avatar worlds

This should bring upwardly a bunch of worlds that comprise avatars. Travel to a world, walk up to an avatar, bespeak at it, and pull the trigger. Boom! You're now wearing that avatar.

Unfortunately, if yous close VRChat and come up back, you'll have to get over again and find that avatar. Information technology doesn't stick, and then be certain to keep in your head an idea of where you found the avatar in the first identify.

More resources

Interested in more of what VRChat has to offer? Take a look at our beginner's guide for more data.

Beginner's guide to VRChat

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