Is that in VR googles view, or both are in editor/monitor normal view?
Have you checked render settings in project settings.
It may be so VR template uses different rendering like different DirectX version target etc.
Also if everything works fine in 3rd person, you always can migrate VR player character and controller over to 3rd person. Or recreate those manually in 3rd person. This setup would be even better base for game project.