You could soon be playing PC games from this bizarre-looking egg pod

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PC gaming is a popular hobby right now, given many of us have been stuck at home for the last year or so, and the ongoing success ofesportsand platforms likeTwitchmeans it’s likely not going away any time soon.

While many of us enjoy cramming our rigs full of RGB lighting and other fancy components, Cooler Master’s latest product unveiling proves you really can overdo things.TheORB Xis a domed semi-enclosed workstation that can support up to three 27-inch monitors or a single 49-inch ultrawide. While it doesn’t fully encapsulate the user, it allows enough privacy for you to work with some peace and comfort, though we imagine if you decided to set this up in a communal office you’d probably get more unwanted attention, rather than being left alone.

What a yolk

As we know you’re all probably queueing up to play games in a giant egg, so you’ll be pleased to know it looks like it’ll be available in either black or white to match the aesthetic of your gaming room. Jokes aside, while its design is a little questionable, there have been someinteresting gaming chairscirculating of late that integrate your desk and monitors into the furniture.A popular concept design fromRazerknown asProject Brooklynwas a big talking point duringCES 2021, suggesting the future of gaming may see these cockpit-style chairs becoming more readily available and in demand.A few other features expected for the ORB X are a hidden compartment located on the back to conceal your PC rig, a wireless charging pad located on the desk, and built-in RGB lighting along every edge of the chair. There’s also surround sound speakers in the chassis of the ORB X that help with the immersive gaming experience, so you can nestle into the ergonomic chair and enjoy your favorite games as they were intended to be played. In an egg.The entire thing is also motorized so you can lift and lower the roof of the chassis to allow for easy access. It’s certainly a unique take on gaming cockpits but if you can get past the strange shape then this looks like it would be a genuinely interesting piece of gaming furniture, particularly if it allows forHOTAS controllersorracing wheels and pedals.

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Jess is a former TechRadar Computing writer, where she covered all aspects of Mac and PC hardware, including PC gaming and peripherals. She has been interviewed as an industry expert for the BBC, and while her educational background was in prosthetics and model-making, her true love is in tech and she has built numerous desktop computers over the last 10 years for gaming and content creation. Jess is now a journalist at The Verge.

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