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VR Motion Controller Key Mapping and Chat Accessibility

Right now, motion controllers for Windows Mixed Reality and Oculus don't have the key mapping functionality that is present for keyboards and regular controllers, and would be a great quality-of-life addition (holding the right analog stick clicked-down on WMR to continuously sneak can get tiring). 

With this addition, the chat button should be added to one of the VR key bindings, as the chat is currently only accessible for motion controller users when sleeping in a bed (the "open chat" button appears), or by walking over to your PC and using your physical keyboard (but that breaks the immersion).

I'm not sure if Oculus provides a VR keyboard like WMR does, but typing in VR for signs and in chat (accessed via bed chat button or physical keyboard) already works for motion controllers. It just needs to be accessible.

One of Bedrock VR's biggest advantages over Java's VR mod is the ability to play on multiplayer servers and realms natively, but this experience is held back by the chat function not being properly accessible when using motion controllers.

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    PLEASE!!!!

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    2 years later, still broken.

    VR controls for Oculus used to be better, but it seems at some point some "genius" decided that the Oculus controllers should be mapped exactly like an XBox controller. This results in off-hand controls doing things that the main hand is pointing at (e.g. placing blocks, using items) while main-hand buttons do things on the off-hand (change selected item). It's very unintuitive and I keep pressing the wrong buttons.

    Please, being able to re-map the controls would completely solve this issue!!!!!

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    Would love to have Auto Jump on WMR. Option for VR mode feels lacking.

    Overall to able to actually manually map inputs would help in the long run.

    I don't like clicking on the sticks as I would fear it might make the stick not usable from drafting issue.