You can play VRChat using a keyboard, mouse, and monitor! No headset required.
Movement is handled via the standard FPS "WASD" setup, with your mouse adjusting your view position. Your head will point in the direction you're looking.
It is not possible to move your arms while in Desktop mode currently.
Key | What it does |
|---|---|
W | Moves player forward |
A | Moves player left |
S | Moves player back |
D | Moves player right |
Space | Makes player jump (if it is enabled in the room) |
Z | Crawl/Go Prone |
C | Crouch |
R | Opens Action Menu |
Escape | Opens Quick Menu |
Shift | Sprint |
Left Click | Interact / Pickup |
Right Click (Hold) | Shows interaction mouse |
Right Click | Drop pickup |
Right Click + F (Hold) | Allows you to throw held pickups |
V (Hold) (If using push to talk) | Enables microphone as long as it's held |
V (If using toggle talk) | Enables / Disables microphone |
End | Toggles AFK mode |
Control + N | Toggles visibility of player nametags |
Control + H | Toggles visibility of the HUD (microphone and notification icons) |
Control + \ | Local switch to default robot avatar (good for when unable to access menu or see out of avatar) |
RShift + Backtick + 1 † | Toggles visibility of trigger debug menu |
RShift + Backtick + 2 † | Toggles visibility of information debug menu |
RShift + Backtick + 3 † | Toggles visibility of console debug menu |
RShift + Backtick + 4 † | Toggles visibility of networking debug menu |
RShift + Backtick + 5 † | Toggles visibility of networking graph debug menu |
RShift + Backtick + 7 † | Toggles visibility of networking debug overlay |
RShift + Backtick + 8 † | Toggles visibility of event debug overlay |
RShift + Backtick + 9 † | Toggles visibility of user networking debug overlay |
F12 | Takes screenshot, saved to the folder VRChat is installed |
Control + F12 | Takes screenshot at 4K (3840 × 2160) resolution, saved to the User's Pictures/VRChat folder |
Shift + F1* | Hand gesture - Idle |
Shift + F2* | Hand gesture - Fist |
Shift + F3* | Hand gesture - Open Hand |
Shift + F4* | Hand gesture - Point |
Shift + F5* | Hand gesture - Victory (Peace) |
Shift + F6* | Hand gesture - Rock 'n Roll |
Shift + F7* | Hand gesture - Finger-gun |
Shift + F8* | Hand gesture - Thumbs up |
Shift + Esc | Enables Safe Mode, which swaps Safety to Custom Level with all features disabled. |
* Use left shift to control your left hand, use right shift to control your right hand.
† RShift + Backtick can be remapped in the launch settings, available by holding Shift while launching VRChat. This must be done on every launch due to a Unity issue. On a standard English US QWERTY layout keyboard, "backtick" is the key in the top left, next to the 1 key. It shares a key with the tilde (~) character.
These Debug options are disabled unless you launch VRChat with the --enable-debug-gui launch option.
Updated about a month ago