Can't interact with menus using a controller in VR mode

I am using a custom diy phone setup with opentrack-openvr and a controller which is actually my ipad sending stuff to vjoy and then Steam Input makes it usable for VRChat. This works for moving and looking around and stuff in VR but I do not have a cursor and cannot interact with menus. I have not used this setup in a quite a while but if I remember correctly I used to have a cursor in the middle of the screen that I could use but now there is no way to interact with the menus. Also, in non-VR-mode I can use a cursor in menus, but not in VR mode. Is the problem my setup and there is a way to interact with menus using a (xbox-like) controller in VR mode or is this just not possible?