A wild gaming concept is loved by BMW. The car manufacturer's Designworks 'innovative studio' once worked with Asus on the extreme ROG Face Off gaming laptop concept, and now its engineers are focusing in the world of gaming chairs with this: The Rival Rig gaming chair concept.
   The Rival Rig is exactly the way you'd expect a chair dreamed up by a performance car manufacturer to be. It's state as having a "Microclimate Control System" and "Adaptive Seating", powered by an AI-controlled mesh of sensors, pneumatic air pads, and electro-mechanical actuators. It's intended to shift and mould itself to the player, lead by heaps of data collected by its many onboard sensors.
   President of Designworks Holger Hampf says in a press release that they wanted a gaming rig design that takes both technology and aesthetics in this field to the next level. Their goal was to create comfortable seating, hand posture and head movement situation allowing gamers to fully immerse themselves and experience a sense of weightlessness.
   It's also an open source design, meaning third-party hardware and software is welcome. According to Hampf, the chair was influenced by spaceships and Formula 1 cars. Hampf notes, "Major design choices we made for the rig were influenced by the aesthetics you typically find in games."
   Either way, it's a mix of practicality, ergonomics, and flashy. It can be guessed that this chair will never see the light of day, but if even one bit of it makes it from concept to product, then supposedly that's time well spent.
   It is actually fun to look at and dream of what could be imagined.