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Linus tech tips coverage of Pax 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel and SteelSeries play seat you may know them as the makers of fine racing chairs or flight sim chairs but what you probably don't know them for is the makers of more like a media chair or something that looks great in your living room and is also designed for gaming so this my friends is the first prototype of the immersion so this was built for e3 and is being shown off for the second time here at PAX Prime in order to get user feedback from real gamers it is designed to be extremely comfortable but you're still gonna have those place heat features that you've come to expect so there are two mid-range speakers built into the headrest up here as well as a 5 watt subwoofer that is built into the base of the seat that's gonna give you both an auditory experience and a sort of you know a tactile vibrational bum experience that really I think is is helpful when you're trying to have an explosive sort of thing going on and you can really feel it instead of just hearing it on the side here is the control panel so it's got support for both analog in and Bluetooth in so you can't just use it with your games you can also use it with something like an Apple TV that is able to be Mario over Bluetooth there's also a pass-through so you can opt to not use the built-in speakers and use your headphones instead and because they're taking user feedback they're looking at the possibility of adding even more features such as oh I don't know say a USB port on the side because you're already powering the thing anyway so that way you could charge your controller or your smartphone or whatever else you might want while you're sitting in your gaming chair the construction is obviously not final but we're expecting it to have an adjustable headrest so right now it's a very very very prototype but don't worry that'll stay in place once the final product is completed and right now there's not really much range of motion for tilting back but something that they are taking the feedback from gamers very seriously and looking into implementing as well the thing that I like about this is that unlike that chair which is awesome and super cool and amazing this one is one that I don't have to think about do I need to put this away when the relatives are coming so that there's room for everyone to sit anyone can sit in this not just a gamer so if you don't have the space to store something like that or you don't have the room for it you could just have living-room furniture that is play seat immersions and no one would be any of the wiser if you unplugged them when they came over so no one trips on the cables or anything expected MSRP is around $5.99 and when you consider what a nice living room chair costs starting to look pretty good but what if you wanted a racing seat you just want a racing seat it's not okay to have a gaming seat that you play with with a controller and you want a steering wheel and foot pedals and all those things this is still pretty new this was released in spring this year and I'm gonna have my lovely assistant Kelly Jeffrey say hi hello thank you that's awesome you're incredible fold this up and show us how it can be stored in a closet or somewhere out of the way if you don't necessarily want to have a rigid metal structure sitting in the middle of your living room or in your gaming den or wherever else the case may be so just like that this is the challenge it folds up and that is pretty darn innovative guys thank you so much don't miss any of our PAX Prime coverage our trip to the show here is covered by Western Digital Intel and steel series so big thanks to those guys for making this possible