Friday, October 10th 2025
Elgato Announces Embrace, Its First Studio Chair
Elgato, a Corsair brand, today announced its first studio chair, Embrace. Built from the ground up for creators, professionals, and anyone who spends serious time at a desk, Embrace delivers long-lasting support in a form that blends effortlessly into any setup. The result is a chair that favors posture over posturing, while offering top-tier features that genuinely enhance comfort beyond others in the same class, without screaming for attention.
Fit meets focus
People spend hours seated - streaming, meeting, working, even gaming. Embrace was built for exactly that: long sessions where body and mind need to stay aligned. From the breathable mesh backrest and luxe cushioning to the waterfall seat edge and precision-adjustable frame, Embrace is engineered to fit a wide range of body types. It adapts to individual users' ergonomic needs, with independent controls for seat height and depth, lumbar support, plus a five-step recline with a tilt locking mechanism typically seen only on specialist ergonomic chairs. Additional features include 4D armrests and a sculpted headrest, while a single logo adorning the back keeps branding tastefully discreet.
At home anywhere
Whether used in a production studio, editing bay, office, or dual-purpose living space, Embrace slots seamlessly into almost any environment. The chair accommodates different workflows and working styles, whether that means leaning in to concentrate or reclining to ideate.
Assembly is refreshingly simple. From unboxing to fully built takes most users just minutes, with no heavy lifting or complicated steps. Once assembled, the chair doesn't dominate the room. Its understated design offers a polished look that complements rather than competes with interior spaces. Beneath its clean aesthetics, Embrace is built with long-term use in mind. High-tensile mesh resists stretching over time, molded foam retains shape and resilience, and all moving parts - including the pneumatic gas cylinder and castors - are engineered for smooth operation and adjustment. It's the kind of build quality that encourages all-day use without fatigue or fuss.
Create in comfort
Embrace marks Elgato's expansion into studio furniture, addressing a longstanding gap in the market: ergonomic seating with high-end features, made more attainable. By lowering this barrier, Elgato is making its ecosystem not only more comprehensive and empowering, but also comfortable to work in.
Embrace will be available this coming holiday season. Customers can sign up to be notified when it is in stock at https://e.lga.to/embrace-notify-me.
[Editor's Note: At the time of writing, the Elgato Embrace is listed on the official Elgato website for €499.99.]
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Fit meets focus
People spend hours seated - streaming, meeting, working, even gaming. Embrace was built for exactly that: long sessions where body and mind need to stay aligned. From the breathable mesh backrest and luxe cushioning to the waterfall seat edge and precision-adjustable frame, Embrace is engineered to fit a wide range of body types. It adapts to individual users' ergonomic needs, with independent controls for seat height and depth, lumbar support, plus a five-step recline with a tilt locking mechanism typically seen only on specialist ergonomic chairs. Additional features include 4D armrests and a sculpted headrest, while a single logo adorning the back keeps branding tastefully discreet.
Whether used in a production studio, editing bay, office, or dual-purpose living space, Embrace slots seamlessly into almost any environment. The chair accommodates different workflows and working styles, whether that means leaning in to concentrate or reclining to ideate.
Assembly is refreshingly simple. From unboxing to fully built takes most users just minutes, with no heavy lifting or complicated steps. Once assembled, the chair doesn't dominate the room. Its understated design offers a polished look that complements rather than competes with interior spaces. Beneath its clean aesthetics, Embrace is built with long-term use in mind. High-tensile mesh resists stretching over time, molded foam retains shape and resilience, and all moving parts - including the pneumatic gas cylinder and castors - are engineered for smooth operation and adjustment. It's the kind of build quality that encourages all-day use without fatigue or fuss.
Embrace marks Elgato's expansion into studio furniture, addressing a longstanding gap in the market: ergonomic seating with high-end features, made more attainable. By lowering this barrier, Elgato is making its ecosystem not only more comprehensive and empowering, but also comfortable to work in.
"With Embrace, we set out to deliver the type of ergonomic performance usually reserved for high-end chairs that professionals have relied on for years," said Jeff Stegner, Product Manager at Elgato. "What makes Embrace different is how we've brought those features down to a more accessible price point. It's part of our broader effort to democratize the tools needed in content creation for users at all levels, while still offering the premium experience people associate with Elgato."Availability
Embrace will be available this coming holiday season. Customers can sign up to be notified when it is in stock at https://e.lga.to/embrace-notify-me.
[Editor's Note: At the time of writing, the Elgato Embrace is listed on the official Elgato website for €499.99.]
22 Comments on Elgato Announces Embrace, Its First Studio Chair
You can get a refurb Leap v2 (also plastic) for 600,-
A face off between those two would be a great review objective.If the plastic is indestructible, I don't really care what materials are used.
And by looking at the design of the headrest mounting arm and wheels, I would NEVA, EVA, NEVA pay that much for it....but I did pay ~$350 several years ago for a heavy-duty, oversized office chair with reinforced wheels, which is still functioning as well as it did on day 1 :D
Every single thing Elgato makes is grotesquely overpriced
You can definitely get some amazing chairs for less, but for a big brand to offer a 24h ergo task chair at that price point is pretty reasonable. It looks to be in the same price ballpark as other office chair offerings from tier-2 manufacturers, and the tier-1 manufacturers like Herman Miller, Steelcase, Humanscale are overpriced for what they are.I'm currently running a Herman Miller Celle which is a 10-year old chair that's almost entirely plastic.
I've seen lighter plastic chairs like the HM Mira hold 300lb morbidly obese people for 20 years of 5-days a week at the office.
help.elgato.com/hc/en-us/articles/39869604770833-Elgato-Embrace-Technical-Specifications
There is a vast range of plastics manufacturers can use in chairs. The nasty stuff you see in $50 office chairs at Staples bears no resemblance to the quality stuff. Some of the sports equipment I trust my life with is plastic, and it'll take my entire bodyweight crashing onto it from a 3m jump hundreds of times a season.
Plastics come in infinite compositions, you get what you pay for. Its often the material with the best characteristics for a wide variety of use cases though. Not just because its cheap. Milled alu can be cheaper...
This idea plastic won't last long enough is a fallacy. There is just an incredible amount of shitty plastics.
I'm just disagreeing with your implication that it's garbage just because it's plastic. We don't know, but presumably it will have quality to match the warranty period. Whether that's 12 years, 5 years, or 2 years will obviously be quite telling until we get independent reviews.
The issue is always the quality of the material used and the manufacturing quality. Hypothetically It could be hewn from titanium and carbon fibre but if it's badly hot-glued together and nothing lines up properly, it'll still be awful despite the use of fancy materials.
The fact that the back rest is only held in place with two screws, really make me doubt how long this will last.
I've had a fair share of Corsair products, as my SO used to work for them for around a decade. They're of a very mixed quality and even some of their high-end products don't last as long as you'd expect for the asking price. Corsair used their own chairs in the office and let's just say that there were some issues with them falling apart in various ways, which is why I don't have high hopes for this product.
To me, this connection looks pretty reasonable, provided the tolerances on these interlocking parts aren't dogshit and the plastic is of a good, tough, non-brittle variety. It seems to be a tapered cylinder that is clamped tight with a machine screw from the bottom, so I think it'll be okay for the few hundred newtons of force a backrest is likely to be put through.
Only time will tell....