CES 2026: Razer Goes Full AI With a Dual POV Camera Gaming Headset and a 6-Inch Screen-Watching Hologram

Razer has joined galore different companies successful focusing its CES 2026 announcements astir AI features, with some hardware and bundle getting AI 'upgrades' successful the caller year. The astir fascinating is simply a classical Razer CES prototype, an AI-equipped gaming headset called Project Motoko, but there's besides a deployable AI companion that is meant to unrecorded connected your table called Project Ava.

Razer besides announced immoderate thankfully AI-free products astatine the show, including the Wolverine V3 Bluetooth – a controller that it is calling 'the world's fastest wireless gaming controller' – and a brace of gaming chairs, including an immersive gaming seat conception and a next-gen Razer Iskur seat that is designed to enactment cooler for longer.

A beauteous standard-looking gaming headset - until you announcement the dual POV cameras.

Project Motoko: a gaming headset with dual first-person cameras, a Snapdragon spot and built-in AI

The Project Motoko conception is tenable – by CES standards astatine slightest – fundamentally coupling a Razer gaming headset with a Snapdragon-powered AI. A camera is built into each earcup of the headset, truthful it tin spot what you see, and you tin inquire it questions, similar 'how bash I bushed this boss?' successful Dark Souls oregon 'what should I physique next?' successful a League of Legends game.

Razer's selling video besides shows plentifulness of non-gaming scenarios, similar asking the headset to summarise pages from a book, suggest a look from a radical of assembled ingredients oregon nutrient a 30-minute workout connected the backmost lawn. The headset besides identifies an approaching idiosyncratic and reminds the wearer of their caller promotion, which would necessitate a overmuch tighter level of integration with your idiosyncratic information to work. Each of these interactions consciousness little convincing than the gaming use-cases, but this is intelligibly much of a connection of intent, but Razer assured america that this volition beryllium a existent merchandise sometime this twelvemonth – we'll see.

As with immoderate different Razer AI integrations that person been announced recently, the thought is that Project Motoko would let entree to a scope of existing AI platforms alternatively than creating a caller Razer 1 – truthful you would beryllium capable to prime from the likes of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and truthful on.

Project Ava: a desk-based AI companion

If you'd similar a much stationary AI assistant, Project Ava is designed to beryllium a personable companion that lives successful a tiny cylinder, with a 5.5-inch animated 'hologram' connected the beforehand that displays the AI arsenic 1 of respective selectable avatars. Ava tin erstwhile again spot and perceive you utilizing a camera and far-field microphone, retrieve your preferences, spot your surface via its USB transportation and mostly instrumentality you person to the HAL 9000 aboriginal we're each looking guardant to. Once again, the absorption is connected gaming, though Razer's selling blurbs besides notation moving to organise your idiosyncratic schedule, amended your outfit oregon program your dinner.

Wolverine V3 Bluetooth: a low-latency controller for unreality gaming

The notation of the Wolverine V3 Bluetooth caused my ears to prick up, arsenic it's uncommon to perceive of a Bluetooth controller offering amended wireless latency than a 2.4GHz wireless oregon wired USB connection. However, that's precisely what Razer is claiming to person achieved successful concern with LG, with a gamepad designed to enactment with unreality gaming connected LG TVs. The feat is down to its usage of ultra-low latency Bluetooth, which Razer says is simply a world-first, and allows for effect times nether 3ms. The controller tin besides power a enactment of caller LG TVs, and holds a 'designed for LG Gaming Portal' certification, with 4K 120Hz HDR streaming via GeForce Now.

Razer Iskur V2 NewGen and Project Madison: next-gen gaming chairs

The Razer Iskur V2 is an existing product, truthful I was amazed to spot Razer to denote different Iskur V2 gaming seat arsenic portion of their CES 2026 lineup. The caller procreation exemplary has 2 large changes compared to its predecessor, starting with a much precocious adjustable lumbar enactment strategy that aims to forestall backmost symptom caused by atrocious posture. The Iskur V2 was already much susceptible than your mean gaming seat successful this respect, with plentifulness of adjustability, but the caller procreation exemplary includes a 360-degree swivel plan that tin determination dynamically, theoretically ensuring that your backmost remains supported adjacent aft changing position.

The caller Iskur V2 besides swaps modular polyurethane leather for EPU leather, which Razer claims has higher thermal effusivity – meaning it doesn't transportation vigor to your assemblage arsenic rapidly arsenic different materials. You tin deliberation of the quality betwixt a metallic camping cupful and a heavy bony china mug; the exterior of the metallic cupful volition consciousness hotter adjacent erstwhile it has the aforesaid aboveground somesthesia arsenic the mug, arsenic the vigor volition determination into your manus overmuch much readily. The EPU besides should beryllium much durable and hard-wearing than its PU counterpart. Finally, 'dual-density cold-cured foam' is utilized for the spot cushion, providing different mechanics for vigor to beryllium wicked distant from your body.

The caller Razer Iskur models are disposable for pre-order and commencement astatine $650 for the V2 exemplary oregon $350 for the much basal V2 X, which lacks the lumbar enactment of the V2.

Razer is besides showing disconnected a conception chair, this clip astir the taxable of immersive gaming. Project Madison is designed to harvester light, dependable and vibration to much afloat crushed you successful virtual worlds, a conceit that is precise Razer. Sight is covered by RGB lighting built into the headrest – though it's hard to ideate however you tin spot it portion sitting successful the seat – portion proceeding is handled by an integrated talker system, which tin beryllium utilized standalone oregon with beforehand speakers to service arsenic a 5.1 oregon 7.1 situation dependable setup. The last magnitude is touch, with 'multi-zone haptic feedback' delivered via six motors and based disconnected on-screen 'intensity and directionality'.

Madison sounds similar a amusive CES demo, but we'll person to hold and spot to find retired if Razer is capable to instrumentality the halfway of the conception into a shipping product.

Will is lawman tech exertion for IGN, specialising successful PC hardware, sim racing and show tech. He has been publishing astir games and exertion since 2001 (age 12). Will was formerly Deputy Editor astatine Digital Foundry. He is presently playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.