TRACER
Vest-free, camera-AI laser tag. Play anywhere.
Provisional patents filed — US & Canada.
Hit detection, moved off the target and onto the shooter.
No vests. No sensors. Nothing worn by the person you're tagging.
Hit detection has always lived on the target.
Laser tag is venue-locked and vest-bound. Backyard blasters can't confirm a hit — every shot is self-ruled and argued. Airsoft hurts, is expensive, and needs a controlled field.
Force-on-force needs instrumented ranges and worn sensors — expensive, fixed, hard to scale.
Why now: every phone is a camera + screen + AI. On-device vision can finally confirm a hit on a human — no vests, sensors, or wearables required on the target.
A working product — not a concept.
Three moats, in order.
Own laser tag at home — then everywhere.
~$8B global recreational-shooting market.
- Automatic blasters $3.8B · laser tag $1.8B · gel / airsoft & accessories.
- Growing 7–9% a year · North America ≈ 40%.
Land with hardware.
Expand into a platform.
- Land: sell the TRACER pack — the hardware every player starts with.
- Expand: wearable haptics, app subscription, premium games & features, a smart-TV arcade mode, and match data.
We know exactly where we can sell.
- US: nationwide — New York restricted, California requires warning labels.
- Canada: pending legal opinion.
- Institutional / defense: sits outside consumer replica restrictions.
A mapped constraint — not an open risk.
Andy Sworyk — Founder
UX / product background, self-taught hardware. Designed and built all five generations — hardware, firmware, iOS app, and the computer-vision hit detection.
Solo founder, actively building out the team.
Raising $75K on a SAFE.
$2M post-money cap. Enough to make TRACER sellable — production PCBs, radio certification, safety compliance, and liability insurance.
- Milestones
- Certified & insured · first production PCBs · 25 Founders Edition units to friends & family — set up for a priced seed.
Let's build it.
A working product, provisional patents, and a clear path to market. The hard part is done.
Andy Sworyk · tracertechsupport@gmail.com · jointracer.com
Where TRACER sits vs. the field.
| Laser tag | Consumer blasters | Airsoft / gel | TRACER | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confirmed hit detection | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| No vest / wearable | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Play anywhere (within reason) | ✗ | ✓ | ◐ | ✓ |
| Scoring & stats | ◐ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Connected app + data | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| No welts / injury risk | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
✓ full · ◐ partial / venue-only · ✗ none. TRACER is the only option that ticks every box.
Muzzle camera → UDP → on-device Vision.
The gun connects to the phone over its personal hotspot; shots are scored locally on the phone with no cloud round-trip, so hit detection stays fast. Multiplayer, accounts & match data sync through our backend (Supabase). The hit-detection stack is proprietary.