Razer AI Companion, also known as Project AVA, isn’t just another AI software tool running in the background.
It’s presented as a holographic AI presence — an AI companion device designed to watch gameplay in real time, understand context, and offer guidance without waiting for prompts.
Until now, most AI systems in gaming have been invisible. Menus, overlays, prompts. You ask, they answer, and they disappear.
This is different. This isn’t a chatbot on the side.
It’s an always-present system running alongside the game.
If an AI is present during gameplay, reacts in real time, learns your habits, and adjusts alongside you, the relationship changes. It starts to feel less like a tool and more like participation.
And that’s where things get uncomfortable.
We’ve already accepted many forms of assistance in games — guides, mods, aim support, overlays. But those systems remain passive. They don’t share the moment with the player.
A companion does.
And once AI assistance becomes continuous rather than occasional, the question is no longer about features. It becomes about meaning. What does skill represent when support is always there? Does fairness depend on restriction, or on equal access?
What makes Project AVA especially interesting is that gaming may only be the starting point. It feels like an early signal of a broader ai desktop companion shift — one where AI is experienced as presence, not software.
So I’m curious where you draw the line.
Would you use it?
Or would it change the meaning of the game?
Top comments (6)
Not sure about gaming, but when i read about this devices, i get one idea ... for example when i use programe which i don't know how to use it... then i make print screen and send to chatgpt, now imagine this device see my screen and live telling me, no no go right click on menu etc etc... for that i think it will be amazing helper... For gaming, also can be fun
Exactly — once assistance starts reacting continuously, it changes the relationship.
Where do you think the line should be in competitive games?
I don't know to be honest. For example if I play Call of Duty, how AI companion can help me? If I have 1 sec to do something, it can be only supporter or make jokes etc. Ok maybe it can help to setup weapons attachemnts etc. as advisor...
That’s the tricky part — what’s one second for you might be something a companion can anticipate earlier.
I’m not sure either — it feels like one of those things we’ll only really understand once people start using it.
Cheating!!!
That reaction makes sense.
What complicates it is the shift from occasional help to continuous presence — that’s where the definition of cheating starts to blur.