May 2025

10 years ago this month, bHaptics was founded to make haptic technology as accessible as possible, to improve human connections by enhancing digital experiences. Our ultimate goal is to provide a more natural and immersive experience for all conventional digital content using haptics.

If you can believe it, our first hardware prototypes were made with medical gauze! From that humble beginning, we now have a catalogue of six haptic devices, made from premium materials, designed for comfort and built to last!

We have become a global leader of wearable haptic devices, currently supporting 300 natively compatible games across different gaming platforms, SteamVR, Meta Quest, PS VR2, and all major VR headsets. In 2025, we officially support PC Flat-Screen games, with a SimHub Plug-in for Sim Racing games and Overwolf integration for other PC games, starting with Fortnite and Rocket League. We’re in our 6th generation of wearable vests, and armed with feedback from our extremely dedicated community, we continue to explore new and potential applications for haptic wearables.

Aside from hardware, we also provide software tools that allow users to connect their bHaptics devices to their entertainment platforms and to customize their haptic experiences to their preferences.

bHaptics Player

Arguably, the most important is the bHaptics Player. An essential program for connecting and using all bHaptics Devices. Now it’s directly available on Meta Quest devices, on Windows for PC VR, and on iOS/Android version for PS VR2.

It’s interesting to see how much the program has changed!

bHaptics Designer

The bHaptics Designer is a haptic editing tool that allows anyone to create custom feedback patterns through a simple click-and-drag interface. Our event-based SDKs for Unity and Unreal Engine let developers add event calls instead of embedding haptic data directly into the project, eliminating the need to rebuild when making changes.

Like with all our products, it has gone through variations. Here a version of the bHaptics Designer from 2017!

bHaptics Developer Portal

The bHaptics Developer Portal is a web-based, intuitive platform for managing haptic events and feedback. Together, these tools and SDKs allow for easy integration with existing content. Since 2020, the number of supported titles has significantly increased, allowing bHaptics to offer a wider selection of content to users and a larger user base for developers.

Now, we’re focusing on advancing our technology to better fool the brain’s perception of touch, using an algorithm that creates an illusory tactile sensation between the motors. This allows us to be more creative in our product design and balance technological advances with the needs of our customers. Weight, size, budget, and ease of use all factor into the how, what, and why of our development cycles.

So what’s next for bHaptics? We see a growing demand for haptic devices in entertainment-related fields beyond gaming into industries like movies, videos, music, and concerts. Whatever comes next, we know our success would not be possible without our fantastic community, employees, developers, influencers, users and and retail partners.

On behalf of the entire bHaptics team, thank you for your continued support. Let’s create a more connected future, together!