However, many users have VRChat lagging in VR when interacting with the environment or other players, which prevents them from fully taking advantage of the VR game. This can be the cause of several issues, such as network congestion. You can reduce VRChat’s high ping in several ways, like...
I ended up having my headset display show no signs of life until I had restarted SteamVR twice & unplugged it... As mentioned above, there is the following launch flag (now out of beta) you can give to VRChat, but I had trouble with the players lagging quite heavily with CPU decoding...