Well, this wasted a good hour for me today:
If you read my previous posts in the thread, I had trouble getting any data from the motion controller, and after I put it in a looping timer it worked… until today when it just stopped (apart from the error message, there should be a controller displaying near the FPS counter since the counter is attached to it).
Turns out, even if you choose “Any Hand”, only the RIGHT controller (HP Reverb G2) gives any data. 
PS. @VictorLerp I noticed that bloom was turned off in the VT Template. Is it really that expensive on modern hardware?