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Razer�s Freyja haptic cushion on a gaming chair.

Razer’s new haptic gaming cushion is, well, interesting. It’s called the Razer Freyja and it’s a pretty self-explanatory device: you load it onto your chair, plug it in, and the six padded regions, each with a motor embedded within it, start a-rumblin' in time with in-game actions, sounds, or music. The idea is, with haptic feedback vibrating down your back and backside, you’ll be more engrossed in your game.

It’s certainly an idea—one that a few haptic companies have been pushing for a while now. There are haptic vests, haptic chairs (includingone from Razer), haptic chair accessories, but never, as Razer tells me ahead of Freyja’s release, a cushion.

I tried the haptic gaming cushion out ahead of its announcement over at Razercon just now. Loaded into a Razer gaming chair with the cushion attached (it’s held on with a couple of adjustable straps and should work with most chairs) I sit back enough to get the full force of the device. I watch our long-standing Razer PR sadistically turn up the vibration force to maximum rumble in the new Razer Synapse 4 app and load up Final Fantasy XVI.

If specific support for Freyja doesn’t happen for a particular game you play a lot of, the haptics can also be set to respond to in-game sounds instead.

But back to my rump-shaking experience. With Final Fantasy loaded up, I was ready to kick butt and get my butt kicked in return. Tapping furiously on the provided keyboard and mercilessly murdering large lobster-looking creatures with one fell swoop of my magic hands (I don’t play Final Fantasy, can you tell) I was getting properly rumbled.

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Razer’s Freyja haptic cushion on a gaming chair.

Different actions cause different pads to shake. Flinging your sword into the air will see the pads engage near the top of the cushion, and as you come slicing down the lower pads engage. There was no discernable lag from my actions in-game into the cushion as I tried it out, though after a while of ferocious button mashing I became slightly numbed to the intricate haptic details.

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I’m not saying it’s close to a mega sim-racing rig with all the actuators, but it’s more than a stiff-seat level of immersion.

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Razer’s Freyja haptic cushion on a gaming chair.

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Yet beyond the sim racing setup, I’m not so sure. Maybe I’d need longer with it than a fleeting Final Fantasy experience to understand the full appeal—maybe a horror game would be fun—or I’m just not the target audience. But I didn’t walk away feeling like I’d want to pay the $300 fee to feel the sensation again.

Even set to music mode and when listening to Chase & Status and Stormzy’s bass-pumping trackBackbone,it didn’t hit the right spots for me. I even had Razer’s new haptic headset on, the Razer Kraken V4 Pro, but it felt like being a bit too close to the speaker on a night out. And I’m usually a bit of a bass-head. Far from a bad experience, I’m just not sold on the value proposition, especially when the headset alone costs $400.

If you’re more frivolous or that sim racing setup does sound like something you’d be interested in, the Razer Freyja is available right away from the Razer store.

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