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You're focused on the HMD. You're not looking past it.There's a perceptual thing you can do, once you do it once, you get a feel for it. Eventually you can swap between your default mode, and looking PAST the HMD and see the characters. You see a very rough, image to begin with. You have to tape into your own perceptual ability of your brain to make sense of what's before you to feel like it's there, once you do that, phantom touch and being there happens as a direct results.

Look past the screen.
Imagine the monitor is a screen door. Now, look past the screen door. Don't acknowledge the screen door. The screen door effect also disappears as a result of this, and you will sometimes see a weird screen door effect IRL after exiting VR when done properly, it naturally goes away.

Basically, you need to teach yourself to enter VR mode when in VR. My Triggers for entering VR mode consist of adjusting my HMD and FBT for no real purpose other than to turn the switch on.