Razer’s new gaming chair vibrates your spine and blasts your ears in search of ‘immersion’

Razer’s next great black and green gaming chair is designed to make you hear and feel every in-game gunshot or bone-chilling roar of a speeding motorcycle. The Razer Soma Pro takes the same basic ergonomic design from the Soma Chroma from earlier this year, but adds rear and bottom haptics alongside built-in neck rest speakers.

Two new chairs complete Razer’s Soma line, one called the Soma Sensa HD Haptics and the other a high-end throne, the Soma Pro. As the name suggests, the $500 Chroma only pairs with the RGB strip that surrounds the headrest. The higher version of this basic chair loses the lights but gains the Sensa HD Haptic suite. This $570 version features six actuators positioned around the lumbar space that vibrate and rumble during your gaming sessions. The $1,000 Pro chair combines RGB and haptics and brings the whole suite together with front-facing speakers positioned just behind your ears.

We, the lucky folks at Gizmodo, already had the chance to sit in a prototype version of this chair at CES 2026, back when it was dubbed “Project Madison.” Essentially, the Soma Pro combines a Razer Freyja haptic cushion and a Razer Clio neck-rest speaker into one seat. All of these “immersive” pieces of technology actually make more sense together rather than separately. Instead of fighting between multiple products in Razer’s disparate suite of Synapse and Chroma software, you can control sound and haptics on a single device.

In terms of gaming support, Razer says there are over 100 titles supporting the company’s Sensa HD Haptics. This means that these games have special vibes tied to in-game actions, like casting a spell. Final Fantasy XVI or throw… balls into 007: First Light. Like the Freyja, the Tech Seat will also drive the game’s various audio-based haptic sensations. In my experience, this can cause quirks where you can sometimes hear an NPC’s deep, deep voice in your spine. On the other hand, this mode is great for players who are looking for more seat noise in their racing games.

As for the sound, we hope the Soma Pro will feature better immersive sound than the Clio last year. Razer says the Soma Pro supports THX Spatial Audio, and you can also connect other external speakers to provide a sort of desktop-related surround sound.

All of this is powered using a USB-C cable that you’ll need to plug into a wall outlet or power bank. If it’s the latter, you’ll need to get yourself a pretty beefy bank, at least based on our own experiences. The Soma Chroma expects users to provide their own power bank to operate the chair’s RGB lights in the headrest. A smaller 10,000 mAh battery doesn’t seem to do the trick; we needed a larger 25,000 mAh brick to run the lights.

As tricky as it can be to use, I’ve always really liked the Freyja, even though I knew at the time that it was a niche product designed for a very specific type of player. That’s why the $570 chair seems to be more to my taste, since it doesn’t include any of the unnecessary RGB or the obscene $1,000 price tag of the Razer Soma Pro. Either way, the cost is high to keep your butt rumbling during your late-night gaming sessions. But let’s face it, some players wouldn’t dare put a price on “immersion”.