When is an bureau oregon gaming seat much than a seat? When it's an full mechanical pod equipped with monitors, wireless charging, USB ports, and much RGB LEDs than our idiosyncratic grounds (zero).

As of today, Cooler Master is letting radical registry for the waitlist of its Orb X "multi-purpose station." Waitlist registration is inactive steps distant from preorders oregon adjacent a merchandise day for the seat Cooler Master archetypal started teasing successful 2021. However, it shows Cooler Master is inactive superior astir releasing its workstation pod, which looks similar it was plucked retired of a science-fiction movie earlier passing done a gamer's den.

But Cooler Master isn't limiting the Orb X's imaginable scope to gamers alone. Its announcement contiguous claims it designed the pod "for gamers and professionals" and that its isolating, spherical plan tin assistance radical "stay productive."

The workstation does person a batch of tech that's utilized successful galore people's office setups today. There's enactment for a 34-inch show oregon 3 27-inch ones and abstraction for connecting a laptop oregon console, depending connected however you similar to enactment oregon play.

There's besides a USB hub with 4 USB-A ports and 2 USB-C ports, including 1 with 60 W powerfulness delivery. The dedicated country for a keyboard and rodent is topped with a cloth mousepad material, positive a wireless charging area.

Enlarge / Far from your mean office's privateness booth.

Cooler Master claims a surround-sound acquisition successful the conflict station, with an audio strategy that includes 2 2-inch tweeters, a 5-inch woofer, and 2 2-inch speakers.

Oh, and there's a seat successful that pod! It's a leather 1 that reclines and has an adjustable headrest, plus, possibly astir exciting of all, a limb rest.

Despite this being among the flashiest seating arrangements successful history, Cooler Master says the Orb X is astir enabling a "private environment." The Orb X, arsenic Cooler Master describes it, has a "fully automated motorized shuttle dome, keeping users distant from distractions and enabling an uninterrupted privateness mode."

But portion the idiosyncratic successful the cockpit whitethorn tune the satellite out, those connected the extracurricular volition surely instrumentality enactment of the workstation. Cooler Master claims the "sleek and futuristic appearance... tin acceptable successful immoderate occasion, specified arsenic business, entertainment, oregon gaming setup." But thing tells america it volition basal retired anyplace you enactment it.

Still, to assistance your imagination, Cooler Master has shared an representation of the happening successful an office—inconspicuous arsenic tin be.

Enlarge / Nothing to spot here. 

And if the seat isn't unsocial capable for you, there's RGB to assistance your 74.1×74.3×82.2-inch, 757.3-pound throne pull much attention.

Making it progressively apt this volition beryllium retired of interaction for astir individuals, erstwhile Cooler Master archetypal teased its productivity pod, it told Tom's Hardware it would "likely" beryllium $12,000 to $14,000; however, determination has been nary update connected last pricing.

With these imaginable prices, size, and specs, the productivity pod / gargantuan gamer whitethorn extremity up successful the likes of malls, storefronts, arcades, and commercialized shows.

But that doesn't mean determination won't beryllium immoderate Bruce Wayne-esque individuals vying for the throne for idiosyncratic use. And determination are already different vendors playing successful this space. While likewise decked-out conflict stations, similar Acer's Predator Thronos and Predator Thronos Air, aren't precisely stacked connected shelves, offerings like MWE Lab's Emperor chairs have been astir since 2007, with prices hitting arsenic precocious arsenic $50,000 successful 2013.

None of MWE Lab's existent offerings person a pod encircling you for enactment oregon gameplay, but the institution offers multi-monitor enactment connected to a reclining chair. The three-monitor ePod, for example, is $3,575, portion its circular (but not spherical) Emperor XT supporting 3 monitors has a $5,645 MSRP.

Listing representation by Cooler Master