Support "legacy" grab offsets for Bean Body avatars

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The latest Rec Room update made changes to how items are held in VR to support the upcoming Full Body avatars. These changes are uncomfortable with the bean body & work against many years of muscle memory.

It's been said that bean bodies will continue to be an option for players, which gives the expectation that they will still work as they do today. The lack of body-type-specific "grabbing" infrastructure means this is currently impossible -- if this technology isn't built, I imagine the bean body experience will get worse over time.

For example: the Maker Pen is now weird to hold in VR, which disrupts creator workflows. Additionally, many of the RRO weapons have changed in ways that could necessitate re-learning them (in the most dramatic example, the Crescendo whip).

Building the systems to support per-body-type item grabbing would allow for the use of legacy grab offsets in the bean body case, which ensures players have the best experience regardless of their chosen body type.

Planned Bean Body - General Suggested by: nulln Upvoted: 12 May Comments: 7

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