Woojer Vest 4 review: an immersive haptic experience
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Woojer Vest 4: It's like THX for your torso
By Joe Salas
May 31, 2026
Woojer Vest 4: It's like THX for your torso
The vest weights about 3.3 lb (1.5 kg), so it's pretty light.
JS @ New Atlas
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1/7
The vest weights about 3.3 lb (1.5 kg), so it's pretty light.
JS @ New Atlas
2/7
The Woojer has a ton of adjustability in the straps. I'm a big dude at 6'3, 240 lb (109 kg), and I still had the straps mostly cinched down, and with what feels like literal feet of extra adjustment left if I needed to go bigger.<br>JS @ New Atlas
3/7
The left chest has all your controls and inputs. The ring lights up, indicating how much punch you want and also the volume levels. The USB-C charging port is on the back<br>JS @ New Atlas
4/7
The inside back of the vest, where I get the sweatiest<br>JS @ New Atlas
5/7
The transducers on the chest are places in a slightly awkward spot, in my opinion. I'd like them to be slightly closer together, but maybe it wouldn't be good running a transducer right over your heart? I'm not sure if there are studies on that or not. Either way, it's not uncomfortable or anything. Just weird.<br>JS @ New Atlas
6/7
I was today years old the first time I tried to take a selfie in the mirror over my shoulder. Sorry for the poor quality.<br>JS @ New Atlas
7/7
This is what the app looks like. And it has correction adjustments for lag, but it's still slightly noticeable when running and gunning.<br>JS @ New Atlas
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When I first saw the Woojer vest about seven or eight years ago on Kickstarter, I remember thinking that it sounded fun, but maybe a little gimmicky. Either way, I wanted to try it. So when Woojer recently reached out and asked if I wanted to review it, I said, "Heck yeah, send it over!" Now that I have it and have spent many hours using it in various scenarios, I think I've concluded whether it's worth the ~US$350 price of admission for a vest fitted with bass-thumping transducers.<br>First and foremost, it's just flat-out fun. It's completely unnecessary, but it really adds a layer of physical in a way that would be otherwise pretty hard to accomplish while gaming, listening to music, or even just watching TV.<br>The best way I can describe it is like watching Top Gun Maverick at home on your 40-inch TV with your cute little sound bar versus watching it at an IMAX theater with 12-channel audio and 40-plus dual 15-inch 1,000+ watt woofers absolutely blasting you with sound that hits so hard you can feel it in your tum-tum every time they "Break right, splash one!"
The transducers on the chest are places in a slightly awkward spot, in my opinion. I'd like them to be slightly closer together, but maybe it wouldn't be good running a transducer right over your heart? I'm not sure if there are studies on that or not. Either way, it's not uncomfortable or anything. Just weird.JS @ New Atlas
Because that's exactly what the six Osci TRX2 transducers do: they thump you. A haptic transducer vibrates mass to create vibrations you can feel, similar to how a speaker moves air so you can hear sound. And in Woojer's case, it's taking low frequency bass, like bombs, bullets, beats, and brawls to fwump-wump your body. More specifically, between 1 and 250 Hz in the Vest 4.<br>When it comes to gaming, I'm a first-person shooter type of fella. At one point in time, nearly thirty years ago, I was ranked 26th in the entire world playing Capture the Flag in 1999's GOTY Unreal Tournament. And Destiny? Get outta here! I was a merc'in-machine with a 4.75 KD in the Crucible. Red Dead Redemption 2: it was so good I did it twice. Same with GTA V.<br>So yeah, the Woojer Vest 4 seemed like a pretty cool idea, adding a kinetic layer to games (like a shotgun blast to the chest), movies (like a shotgun blast to the chest), and music (like ... uhh ... Nirvana's Greatest Hits?). I was pretty excited to try it out when it arrived.<br>The Good, Bad, and the Ugly (but not in that order):<br>It's not perfect. There are a few things that are absolutely annoying, even to a pretty forgiving dude like myself.<br>When using a Bluetooth connection, there are a fair few audio dropouts that'll last ~5 seconds or so before the audio cuts back in. I don't mean going out of sync, I mean full dead dropouts ... while the bass is still thumping from every direction on your torso. So it's happening from the vest --> headphones, regardless if you're wired or wireless with your headphones.
The left chest has all your controls and inputs. The ring lights up, indicating how much punch you want and also the volume levels. The USB-C charging port is on the backJS @ New Atlas
When I've run USB-C audio, plugged directly into my laptop, same deal, just less often. I'd blame it on...