bHaptics TactGlove DK3 adds palm motors, and three AWE testers found touch more immersive

At a glance

Best for: adding touch to hand-tracked games.

Skip it if: you want to feel held objects, or your games aren't on the supported-app list.

Reviewers agree: all three AWE testers liked the upgrade in short demos.

Price: US $385 on bHaptics' own store, checked 14 October 2026.

Status: estimated ship date is 16 October 2026.

At Augmented World Expo in June 2026, Skarredghost put on bHaptics' TactGlove DK3 and touched a sphere hanging from the ceiling, then a similar but heavier one, and says he could clearly feel the difference. UploadVR counts eight motors per hand, up from six, with two new contact points low on the palm. Three outlets tried the gloves at the show, and all three liked the upgrade. On bHaptics' own store the US price was $385, with an estimated ship date of 16 October 2026, as checked on 14 October 2026.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Each DK3 now carries two palm motors, and its wrist actuator is a larger voice-coil unit, a type of electromagnetic actuator, that a bHaptics spokesperson called "crispier". The DK3 is a vibration glove, so the changes are about coverage and crispness: Tom's Guide's Scott Younker was told that gamers found earlier gloves less intense because nothing sat between the fingertips and the wrist. bHaptics says its software blends neighbouring motors into one continuous sensation, and that kind of illusion is well studied: a 2011 CHI paper by Disney Research's Ali Israr and Ivan Poupyrev used phantom sensations and apparent motion to make sparse vibration arrays feel like smooth strokes.[2] [3] [4] [5]

After ten minutes on a Quest headset, Skarredghost called the DK3 a big jump from the bHaptics gloves he'd tried a couple of years earlier. Touch sensations were now definitely good, he says: fingertips get a subtle sense of touching, and buttons, objects and a table all felt much more immersive than without the gloves. Younker, back in the spaceship demo he'd seen at AWE 2025, found it more immersive in his right hand with the new palm and wrist motors. UploadVR's Mike Johnson, in a ten-minute repair mission, liked most the intense feedback he got when he tried to lift the largest cube with one hand.[1] [3] [2]

Because the DK3 only vibrates, Skarredghost found lifting an object less believable than plain touch, and Johnson stresses that it can't make you feel as if you're holding something. Skarredghost could always feel the little fingertip motors, and Younker's pair buzzed harder in the right hand. Johnson's bigger concern is software: bHaptics' PC app listed eleven glove-supported apps, and a booth technician admitted developer adoption is slower than the company would like.[1] [2] [3]

The glove has no tracking sensors of its own, and bHaptics says it keeps about 90% of bare-hand tracking accuracy on Quest 3, a company figure; Skarredghost saw his Quest's finger tracking keep working with one hand in front of the other. The store lists sizes S to XL and a 45-day money-back guarantee, and Younker called $385 expensive for what is mostly a motor update. Before ordering, check the supported-app list for the hand-tracked games you actually play, and watch for buyer reports after the estimated 16 October ship date.[4] [1] [3]