Haptics 2025-2035: Technologies, Markets, Players

This report characterizes the haptics market, technologies and players. Highly granular 10-year forecasts in volume and revenue provide breakdowns including 7 key application areas and 6 overall classes of actuator with further subcategories. Historic data from 2013 to 2023 is also included, as well as over 30 company profiles. Detailed overview of technologies from dominant actuators like LRAs (Linear Resonant Actuators) and ERM (Eccentric Rotating Mass) motors to more emerging options including VCMs (voice coil motors) and piezoelectric actuators is included. Evolving opportunities are outlined, with a US$7.1 billion market value forecast by 2035.

 

Haptic feedback can perform as simple a role as providing notifications, but the capabilities of these technologies are much greater, from providing input confirmation and replacing physical buttons to enabling immersive tactile experiences in virtual reality. Most haptic implementations fall under the banner of tactile feedback, which simulates surface texture, but the use of kinesthetic (force) feedback has widened with the deployment of Adaptive Triggers in Sony's gaming controllers since the launch of the PS5. Thermal haptics offers another emerging dimension of tactile experience in the early stages of adoption.

 

Most tactile haptic feedback technologies revolve around the use of vibrational motion, with the activators that generate this being a key area of innovation. The most recent major shift in this area, which has accelerated since 2015, has been the rise of LRAs, which provide a "clickier" and more configurable haptic response than ERM motors they are widely replacing, since they accelerate faster and decouple frequency from amplitude. In 2024, further shifts are underway, with the use of surface haptics in applications including automotive displays growing and more emerging activator technologies including VCMs and piezoelectric haptics growing their market shares.

 

 

IDTechEx's report details the shifting fortunes of these technologies, based on both their technological merits and the underlying application markets that they are employed in. Smartphones have long been the most lucrative market for haptic technologies, representing 47% of the overall market in 2023, with the need for alerts and keyboard feedback meaning that virtually every smartphone contains a haptic activator, but the smartphone market is at saturation.

 

Therefore, an important factor behind the growth in the haptics market is its adoption in new areas, particularly its growing use in vehicle cockpits, where haptics perform roles from safety alerts to replacing physical buttons that control key driving functions. In terms of haptic innovation, the VR accessory market is important due to the development of advanced haptic wearables, even if its overall value is comparatively small. Innovation in activator design and the use of more activators per device to increase the level of feedback or replace more functions are key factors behind the overall trend of increased spending on haptics per relevant device.

 

IDTechEx's forecasting and market overviews, which focus on key application areas including smartphones, automotive, gaming, VR, laptops, and other wearables, are informed by extensive primary interviews, with over 30 company profiles included with this report. IDTechEx has been covering this market since 2015, and its network and overview of this exciting market is extensive. This report is a must for those who need to understand the changing dynamics of this complex marketplace, charting its course over the next decade and beyond.

 

This report provides critical market intelligence about the product sector and each of the 7 haptics application sectors involved. This includes:

 

Technology history, introduction, analysis for almost every haptic technology, with forecasting for most categories. This includes:

 

Overview of key application sectors, addressing key market challenges and the trends in haptics in different industries, including forecasting. These areas include:

 

Market forecasts, trend, and analysis:

 

Abundant examples and profiles of key market players.

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