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Half-Life: Alyx’s Gravity Gloves have ruined many other VR games for me, as being able to point and flip objects in my hands solved many difficult maneuvering issues common in other games. . It’s difficult, after the elegance of the Half-Life system, to start bending, circling, and gripping the air again to pick up things – or worse, having your hands free from any collision with the world around you.
Enter the modders. Specifically, enter the modder FlyingParticle, which released HIGGS VR for Skyrim VR. It’s a mod that adds a gravity glove-like interaction to Skyrim, and it looks like it works wonderfully.
HIGGS stands for Hand Interaction and Gravity Gloves for Skyrim. VR-focused YouTuber Cangar made the video below to demonstrate the mod’s functionality and has everything you’d hope for from an Alyx inspired mod:
You can point at objects and return them to your hands. You can now use your hands to move items around the tables. Your in-game hands will grip the models in natural positions, allowing you to hold the bottles from the base, tip, or any point along the side, for example. You can now drop items over your shoulder to pocket them, a feature common to many first-person VR games. You can use this system to strip armor from defeated enemies. It even works with Skyrim’s theft system, highlighting items in red that you’ll be labeled a thief for picking up.
There are a few differences between this implementation and Half-Life: Alyx. On the one hand, here you’re pointing your palm at things to pull them towards you, which I can imagine taking some getting used to. There is an .ini file included but that will allow you to fine-tune some of its settings to your preferences.
HIGGS VR installation and setup instructions can be found on the mod’s Nexus Mods page. You’ll want to download the VRIK mod for the full experience seen in the video above, as that’s what gives you body and in-game finger animations for grabbing objects.