bHaptics TactGlove DK3

Overview

The bHaptics TactGlove DK3 is a pair of wireless haptic gloves. They vibrate at your fingertips, palm and wrist when your tracked hands touch something in VR. DK3 is the third developer kit version, after the TactGlove DK1 in 2023 and DK2 in 2024. bHaptics opened pre-orders on its store at $385 a pair, with shipping planned from June 28, 2026. The US store still lists it at $385. bHaptics aims it at XR training, simulation and research, and also promotes it for social VR such as VRChat.

Design and specs

Each glove has 8 haptic points: 5 linear resonant actuators (LRAs) at the fingertips, 2 LRAs in the palm and a voice coil motor at the wrist. The DK2 had 6 points per hand and no palm motors. The wrist motor comes from Titan Haptics and can change frequency from 0 to 100 Hz separately from intensity, for sharper impacts. bHaptics uses a tactile-illusion algorithm between neighbouring motors, so movement across the hand feels continuous. The gloves connect over Bluetooth Low Energy with under 20 ms latency. Each glove has a 630 mAh battery rated for 4 hours, and charges in about 2 hours over USB-C. They come in S, M, L and XL, close with a magnetic strap and have a removable, machine-washable inner glove. The feedback is vibration only; the gloves cannot resist your fingers or simulate holding a solid object.

Compatibility

The gloves have no tracking sensors. They rely on your headset's camera-based hand tracking. bHaptics names Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro and the PICO 4 series as compatible hand tracking systems. In bHaptics' tests on Quest 3, hand tracking with the gloves on reached about 90% of bare-hand accuracy. Because they work with hand tracking, they are not meant for games that you play with controllers in your hands.

Software support

Game support is small. UploadVR found eleven glove-supported apps in the bHaptics PC Player in July 2026, including Half-Life: Alyx and Synth Riders, plus bHaptics' own TactGlove demo. Audio-to-Haptics, which turns sound into vibration, also works, but it adds little on the hands. For developers, bHaptics offers Unity and Unreal Engine plugins, Python, JavaScript and Android SDKs, and a no-code tool for drawing haptic patterns across all 8 points and testing them on your own hand.

Who it is for

The TactGlove DK3 is mainly for developers, researchers and training teams who build hand-tracked XR apps and want touch feedback. Social VR users who play with hand tracking can also use it in VRChat. If you mostly play VR games with controllers, few games will use it today. Check that your apps support the gloves before you buy.