Thought I'd post up a quick review of this thing if anyone is considering buying one. Ace XR
What is it? Ace is advertised as a "Virtual Shooting Simulator". It uses a Virtual Reality headset and a 3d printed handset to turn a regular meta quest VR gaming set up like this:
Into a virtual reality dry fire simulator like this:
While it's mostly aimed at the competition shooting crowd, I think its interesting and may be useful even if you don't ever plan on shooting a single match in your life. If you already dry fire or are considering trying dry fire as a tool to be a more capable defensive handgun shooter, I think this could be valuable for that kind of shooter as well.
I bought mine in December of 2023, so I've used it for over a year now. I wish I could say I've used it every day and now I'm the best shooter ever to walk planet earth, but I'm a dad with young kids and other responsibilities, so that isn't remotely close to the case.
I did put over 14,000 "rounds" through the system over the course of the year, mostly dry firing steel challenge stages. In fact, I did zero other steel challenge specific dry fire or range practice the entire year of 2024. The only time I worked on Steel Challenge was with the Ace XR program.
How did that work out for me? Well, I moved from B class to A in Steel Challenge this summer, improving my classification percentage from 69.1% to 77.1%, so I feel confident in saying that virtual reality dry fire did in fact improve my scores.
It is not cheap. You'll need an Ace subscription ($170 bucks a year), a handset ($200) and a VR headset ($300). Near $700 is a heck of a lot to ask for what looks like a toy, but I really believe that if you could give one shooter $700 worth of ammo and another this system, the VR shooter would wind up progressing more significantly as a shooter, and obviously the costs drop to only the yearly subscription after the initial investment.
It has the same limitations other dry fire practice does, but a huge advantage to me is the ability to see/shoot multiple different stages, with movement etc as well. In addition, if you're not an experienced shooter able to call your shots in dry fire, something like this helps immensely getting started on dry fire practice by doing the shot calling for you.
I'll drop a youtube link to a review of it below so yall can see how it looks as you use it and someone elses thoughts on it. As always, happy to answer any questions and if you want to try it out for yourself and are ever in Central Texas, feel free to reach out to me.
Hope someone finds this helpful.
What is it? Ace is advertised as a "Virtual Shooting Simulator". It uses a Virtual Reality headset and a 3d printed handset to turn a regular meta quest VR gaming set up like this:
Into a virtual reality dry fire simulator like this:
While it's mostly aimed at the competition shooting crowd, I think its interesting and may be useful even if you don't ever plan on shooting a single match in your life. If you already dry fire or are considering trying dry fire as a tool to be a more capable defensive handgun shooter, I think this could be valuable for that kind of shooter as well.
I bought mine in December of 2023, so I've used it for over a year now. I wish I could say I've used it every day and now I'm the best shooter ever to walk planet earth, but I'm a dad with young kids and other responsibilities, so that isn't remotely close to the case.
I did put over 14,000 "rounds" through the system over the course of the year, mostly dry firing steel challenge stages. In fact, I did zero other steel challenge specific dry fire or range practice the entire year of 2024. The only time I worked on Steel Challenge was with the Ace XR program.
How did that work out for me? Well, I moved from B class to A in Steel Challenge this summer, improving my classification percentage from 69.1% to 77.1%, so I feel confident in saying that virtual reality dry fire did in fact improve my scores.
It is not cheap. You'll need an Ace subscription ($170 bucks a year), a handset ($200) and a VR headset ($300). Near $700 is a heck of a lot to ask for what looks like a toy, but I really believe that if you could give one shooter $700 worth of ammo and another this system, the VR shooter would wind up progressing more significantly as a shooter, and obviously the costs drop to only the yearly subscription after the initial investment.
It has the same limitations other dry fire practice does, but a huge advantage to me is the ability to see/shoot multiple different stages, with movement etc as well. In addition, if you're not an experienced shooter able to call your shots in dry fire, something like this helps immensely getting started on dry fire practice by doing the shot calling for you.
I'll drop a youtube link to a review of it below so yall can see how it looks as you use it and someone elses thoughts on it. As always, happy to answer any questions and if you want to try it out for yourself and are ever in Central Texas, feel free to reach out to me.
Hope someone finds this helpful.