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LiberNovo, the company behind 2025's viral Kickstarter chair, is expanding its offering. Three new versions of its popular Omni chair are set to hit the shelves, catering to distinct portions of the market. Yes, that supposedly includes different budgets too, so if the current best gaming chair is out of your reach, you may now be within swinging distance of affording one.
The first of three new LiberNovo chairs you can pre-order through the company's website is the Omni SE, an "entry level" model (although no prices are available at the time of writing), which gives you the same great dynamic support backrest as the original Omni, but takes out the electronics that supposedly drive up its price. The Omni SE still has adjustable lumbar support, but with a practical screw-driven mechanism.
If you can believe it, LiberNovo is also launching a new "upgraded" model of its chair, called the LiberNovo Omni Pro. And here I was thinking a highly innovative chair that costs around $1,000 is pretty "pro" already. The second of the freshly introduced chair range boasts a centrifugal fan system that ensures ventilation while you're sitting. It must be said, in all the time I've been sitting in the original LiberNovo Omni, I've never had trouble with it blocking in too much heat, but then again, I am based in Scotland.
The LiberNovo Omni Pro will be available in a new colorway as well, thanks to an expansion of the upholstery the brand offers. The Omni Pro will come in the standard Soft-Touch Stretch Olefin material, but an added Soft-Grain Woven Fabric will be introduced along with a Sanish Gabriel Atlantic Fabric. The new colorway will come in the Woven Fabric, which is a super-vibrant green.
Last but certainly not least is the LiberNovo Omni Maxis Series, which redesigns the breadth and scale of the Omni to suit big and tall bodies. This could be a huge addition for gamers in particular, since a larger-set backrest will accommodate a wider range of the market and match up in size with a lot of gaming chair rivals. In fairness, the original Omni does have a fairly narrow, one-size-fits-all backrest width for how dynamic it is. The Maxis has a wider backrest and a deeper seat, not to mention larger backrest slats to better support larger frames.
The Maxis actually opens up a new range within a range for LiberNovo. There's the Maxis Electric, which is the equivalent of the original LiberNovo Omni, then the Maxis Manual, a larger set version without electronics (supposedly for a more affordable cost), then the Maxis Airflow, which comes with the Omni Pro's fan system. The Maxis chairs will be available in the original Soft-Touch Stretch Olefin Fabrics, or the new Danish Gabriel Atlantic Fabric, both in either Black or white/grey.
“Following the strong response to our original Omni chair, expanding our lineup was a natural nextstep,” said Alex Yan, Founder & CEO at LiberNovo. “With the Maxis Series we’re addressing a critical gap in the market—bringing high-performance ergonomic design to users who have traditionally been underserved. Across the entire range, our goal remains the same: to help people sit better and live better.”
Regardless of the model you choose, LiberNovo chairs will now come with five set recline levels, as opposed to the four on the original. It's unconfirmed at this point whether or not the original Omni will now ship with the expanded range of recline levels, or it will stick with the four it's always had.
Annoyingly, despite these new chairs being available for pre-order, no prices for them have been published. The brand is running an early bird offer, which means paying a refundable deposit of $10 that unlocks up to $30 in savings on the chair of your choice. Deposit holders who complete a purchase by July 31st will receive a one-year extended warranty.
The new chair range officially launches on June 16, and if I'm honest, I'm not a fan at all of how these pre-orders are being handled. Yes, the deposit isn't big, and it's refundable, but not publishing prices of the new products before accepting pre-orders isn't very consumer-friendly. I assume this is some way of gauging demand so the brand can get a jump on production demands, but even so, if prices are too high for people after the fact, there might be lots of backing out, and thus, inventory left over.
Either way, knowing a price is pretty common practice with any online purchase, especially one like a new, premium desk chair.
What's more, I'm not sure offering an extended warranty to some early adopters is the right way to go about things. The original LiberNovo Omni has reviewed very well, but the biggest and most common concerns with it stem from warranty worries, so I don't think offering some customers more security than others is very fair from a brand that's still in its first full year in the consumer market.
Given the pricing fluctuations and Kickstarter uncertainty around the cost of the first Omni, I would have really appreciated some up-front transparency on how much each new chair will cost if I were shopping for the new models today. I sincerely hope the "entry-level" Omni SE actually comes with an "entry-level" price point that's in line with the rest of the gaming/ergonomic/office chair market. Around $500 is a decent entry point for a good chair these days, and even that is a lot for most customers.
While LiberNovo is doing innovative things with dynamic backrest support, its build quality is a bit more suspect than other brands in the space, with a fair bit of plastics used. It'd be amazing to get to recommend the ergonomics this brand offers to a more affordable subset of the market, so let's hope the pricing for this model is fair.
Since reviewing the original LiberNovo Omni, it's been my mainstay chair thanks to its awesome versatility and comfort. No other chair I've tested has the ability to move with me throughout the day, and although it's extremely expensive, it's undeniably the best chair I've tested. I'll be keen to see how the new models land.
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