The elevator ride was short, they only went down a few floors and when the elevator doors opened they were in a large, concrete room with very little furnishing. The fluorescent lights gave everything a sickly glow and, this far down, there were no windows to let in the sunlight. In the center of the room were several [url=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oCAG1CVV_7Y/UK3ViNqUrKI/AAAAAAAAAEk/qM16SwOIeeM/s640/modern-relaxing-chairs-for-google-employer-540x401.jpg]large chairs[/url] connected to one another by thick wires, monitors lined one of the walls, monitored by a group of men in lab coats who looked like scientists, they seemed to ignore the testers and kept shouting numbers and equations at each other over the hum of the large cooling fans.

"That's a game system? It's just a chair, how are we supposed to play a game on that? There's no screen." Dan asked as David crossed the room and layed a hand on the new Animus model, stroking the padded surface as if it were his baby.

"These," He said, taking his hand off the chair and motioning widely to the whole row of machines and monitors, "is the next generation of gaming. No monitors, no speakers, just you, the chair and your mind." David smiled widely, a slightly off putting face that reminded Dan of a mad scientist's smile straight out of an old horror movie. "You just sit in it and swing that little dome there at the top around to the front to block out the outside world and it transmits a short range electromagnetic field on the same frequency as the human brain. This allows it to show you images without a monitor, play sounds without a speaker. It is not just the next generation in gaming but in audio visual technology and you are the very first to test it. Come on, all of you, have a seat and tell us how it feels. We tried to make them as comfortable as possible and want an outsider's opinion."

Dan crossed the room to one of the chairs and sat down in it, setting his head in the headrest like David had said. There was a slight buzzing sound in his ears but it was comfortable, amazingly so. He could sleep in this chair. "It's great, I could live in this thing for the rest of my life." This statement prompted another creepy smile from David but this time he didn't say anything.