Gaming chairs are a great tool for people who spend their days tied to a desk, barely moving, with more than ten hours of sitting time every day. Unfortunately, the top models right now tend to be fairly expensive.
Still, Razer has announced a cheaper version of the excellent Razer Iskur V2 chair it showed at CES earlier. The company also introduced what it calls "the world's first gaming chair with heating and cooling."
At $649, the Razer Iskur V2 gaming chair is among the best in its class, competing with the Noblechairs Legend and Secretlab Titan Evo with near-perfect build quality.
Most people don't want to pay as much as a high-end graphics card for a chair, even a very good one. So Razer has launched the Razer Iskur V2 X at $299, less than half the price of the premium version. Many features of its predecessor carry over to the Razer Iskur V2 X, including thick cushioning, a 152-degree adjustable recline, a 299-pound maximum weight capacity, and a similar overall design.
Of course, there's a reason the Razer Iskur V2 X costs $350 less. It uses a fixed lumbar curve instead of an adjustable lumbar support system. The armrests offer only two types of movement, height and pivot, and lack the forward/back and side-to-side movement of the Razer Iskur V2. The chair is also made of multilayer fabric instead of EPU leather, uses unsculpted foam and a butterfly mechanism, and has no adjustable memory foam head cushion.
We don't yet know how the Razer Iskur V2 X will stack up against other gaming chairs in the roughly $300 range. It won't take long to find out, though: the chair is available to preorder right now.
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Razer has also unveiled the world's first gaming chair with built-in heating and cooling. The chair, currently code-named Project Arielle, is built on the highly rated Razer Fujin Pro mesh chair.
Project Arielle features an integrated bladeless fan system that, according to Razer, is very quiet and energy efficient. The chair offers three fan speeds and can "reduce the perceived temperature by 2°C to 5°C in dry environments."
For people in places where you might freeze to your seat, Project Arielle also has a heating function that lets it blow warm air of up to 30°C / 86°F.
Project Arielle is one of many ideas we see at CES every year. Not all of them become commercial products, but quite a few catch on well enough to reach the market.
