StrikerVR, the haptic peripheral maker for out-of-home VR, introduced it’s opened pre-orders for the Mavrik, a brand new haptic VR gun designed for shoppers.

The haptic gun, which is suitable with Quest 3 and Quest 3S, is now obtainable for pre-order, priced at $499. StrikerVR says 1,000 models will obtainable for Christmas supply, nonetheless normal delivery is predicted to happen beginning March fifteenth, 2025.

Just like the Professional model for location-based leisure, the brand new Mavrik for shoppers consists of robust immersive recoil and haptic suggestions. The Mavrik additionally comes with a picatinny accent rail with an included Quest controller mount, which permits the headset to trace the haptic blaster in six degrees-of-freedom (6DOF).

Though considerably cheaper than the $950 Mavrik-Professional, like many third-party XR equipment aimed toward shoppers the variety of video games it helps will likely be a giant think about adoption. Notably, the Mavrik doesn’t assist all video games out of the field, requiring builders to manually undertake assist to their Quest 3 video games.

When it does arrive although, the haptic blaster will likely be bundled with three video games out of the gate: Tower Tag, a tactical esports title by Steinfatt GmbH, Laser Limbo, a mixed-reality FPS by freeroam.ar, in addition to a soon-to-be-announced title.

StrikerVR says it’s additionally collaborating with builders to increase the Mavrik’s sport library, with new releases deliberate all through 2025.

Subsequent yr, the corporate says it plans to launch an built-in monitoring improve into detachable high plate, in addition to acquire ‘Made for Meta’ certification, which counts a lot of licensed third-party equipment as official companions, equivalent to D-Hyperlink’s VR Air Bridge and Zenni’s MR prescription lenses for Meta Quest 3S/2.

Whereas the Mavrik’s product web page maintains the package deal consists of the blaster itself, a left controller mount, Energy Adapter (US/EU/UK), and USB-C charging cable, the corporate hasn’t revealed info on anticipated battery life/capability or the kind of haptic engines used.