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Modelled after a Horde hut, this little art exhibit is designed to be an "immersive architectural solution for the advanced World of Warcraft player that provides and anticipates all of life's needs". It's a product for players to whom the call of nature is but a nuisance that inhibits their ability to give the game the fullest extent of their attention.
Besides providing space for a computer and a mouse and surround sound speakers, the Pod comes equipped with canteens filled with drinking water, a hot plate for preparing meals, food packs and a toilet built into the seat. Knowing addicts, the addition of a shower would probably be unnecessary.
The artists have cleverly described it as being created to question "the inducement of pleasure, fantasy fulfilment and the mediation of intimacy in a socially-networked gaming paradigm such as World of Warcraft".
Strange as it might seem, the project is real, created by artists Cati Vaucelle & the duo Shada/Jahn, funded by grants from the Council for the Arts at MIT. The exhibition is currently on display at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, from March to September 2009.
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Besides providing space for a computer and a mouse and surround sound speakers, the Pod comes equipped with canteens filled with drinking water, a hot plate for preparing meals, food packs and a toilet built into the seat. Knowing addicts, the addition of a shower would probably be unnecessary.
The artists have cleverly described it as being created to question "the inducement of pleasure, fantasy fulfilment and the mediation of intimacy in a socially-networked gaming paradigm such as World of Warcraft".
Right. In simple terms, it's an outhouse that allows you to relieve your bowels while you're preparing food and raiding all at the same time. It's like every 60 year old parent's nightmare to have their overgrown, neckbearded 28 year old son living in one of the world's first Gaming Outhouses.
Strange as it might seem, the project is real, created by artists Cati Vaucelle & the duo Shada/Jahn, funded by grants from the Council for the Arts at MIT. The exhibition is currently on display at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, from March to September 2009.
A video for the project can be viewed here.
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Idoliside Apr 21, 2009 at 12:16 pm
+3 votes
In the future there will be a country called Wow, it will be one large field with thousands of these arranged in neat formation. The populace will have all their needs supplied into this one cubicle whilst they explore and play in this virtual world.
The rest of the world look on in dark sewers travelling around in metal ships, trying to gain access to this world, trying to pull people out of it. Whilst in hushed words they refer to it as "The Matrix..."
The rest of the world look on in dark sewers travelling around in metal ships, trying to gain access to this world, trying to pull people out of it. Whilst in hushed words they refer to it as "The Matrix..."
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Lusida Apr 21, 2009 at 2:57 pm
+2 votes
I saw the header and had a freudian slip.
The "Wow PoT".
Well, I guess its the mobile version.
The "Wow PoT".
Well, I guess its the mobile version.
armando2002 Apr 22, 2009 at 1:38 am
+2 votes
Knowing addicts, the addition of a shower would probably be unnecessary.
When I first read this, I was thinking "Where is the shower/mirror/sink?". Then I remembered the typical WoW player and instantly realized why these were not even factored.
When I first read this, I was thinking "Where is the shower/mirror/sink?". Then I remembered the typical WoW player and instantly realized why these were not even factored.
Sol Invictus Apr 23, 2009 at 12:57 pm
+1 votes
I shudder at the very thought of playing World of Warcraft. The months it stole from me were enough to ward me away from MMORPGs for several lifetimes.
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