 Now normally whatever I'm making a video about sits here on the table in front of me, but the item we'll be reviewing today simply doesn't fit here. And no, that wasn't a cheap shot at your mama, but rather a factual observation about the Oboto Revolution, a gaming cockpit that I combined with three LG 31MU97 4K monitors, the standalone video about which is coming soon, by the way, to make the ultimate workstation computer setup that is taking up about half of my living room at home where I have to film it at the moment. So is it worth it compared to a traditional desk and chair? Well, let's find out, shall we? Experience silent performance with the new Cooler Master Silencio 652S. Minimalist design, maximum compatibility. Click now to learn more. It all begins with the package. The Revolution comes in two boxes, one for the racing-style seat and another large, extremely heavy, 49 kilograms to be exact, box for the remainder of this diabolical contraption, so it's well over a hundred pounds and made of thick steel tubing and steel plate. Now this baby may cost a thousand dollars once you equip it with a couple of optional accessories, but there is no question in my mind about whether the ruggedness of the construction matches the price tag. The setup process is... how do I describe this kindly? You know how model kits have skill levels on the side of the package? Well, IKEA would be the easy level and this would be the insanity level. All the parts are neatly labeled and packaged. Mind you, a couple of them were labeled incorrectly. Thankfully, though, I know the difference between a lock washer and a nut. And everything in the box was amazingly well protected and arrived looking absolutely perfect. You can tell they really care about these things getting to the customer in one piece. But the included written instructions are frankly awful with illustrations that are too dark to see and many steps either missing or contradicting the video instructions, which thankfully, by contrast, are excellent if a little needlessly difficult to find on the Obeddo website. Overall, the process took about three to four hours with the help of my wife and the help of my two-year-old, so you could probably do it yourself in about three to four hours. But another pair of hands is definitely nice to have around for certain steps, like mounting the monitor on the VESA mount. But once it's over, do you feel rewarded for your effort? Well, let's take a quick tour of the unit, shall we? We'll start with the main frame, which consists of two bottom runners, a main shaft that ends in a rubber grippy covered plate that can be oriented facing up, or if you're willing to get a little creative, kind of towards you, and is pre-drilled for VESA compliant monitors and some popular racing wheels, and two phenomenally robust side pieces that form a little cage around your feet. Now from the look of this whole assembly, you'd think that it supports the user, the monitors, and a fully stocked beverage cooler, but it's actually just a way overbuilt starting point that everything else attaches to. The footrest with the thoughtfully pre-drilled holes for pedals attaches with four bolts through the sides and can be positioned forwards or backwards with a variety of different bolt holes, and can then be angled according to your preference with another two bolts. Optionally, there's also a kit to bolt two fully articulating arms that terminate in tiltable VESA plates for cockpit instruments or other accessories, and that come with acrylic keyboard and mouse rests that go on them by default. Now I've read a number of user reviews for this product, and it seems like the general consensus is that this combo is a must-have, but I suspect the folks writing these reviews sit a little higher in their seats than my petite 5'6'' frame allows me to, because thanks to their lack of height adjustment, I didn't find them very comfortable to use and spent most of my time with the stock keyboard and mouse plate, which thankfully is height adjustable with a simple turning wheel. And plate is probably the right word for that thing. It's solid steel with reinforcement bars underneath, and attaches via an articulating arm on the left side of the rails that support the seat, and then bolt into the main frame. It's covered in a cloth-type mouse pad material that my M45 mouse tracks perfectly on, and I found quite pleasing to the touch, and it can be easily positioned exactly where it's most comfortable. I did have some complaints about it, though. I was able to solve the issue where the joint swung too freely, making it kind of hard to keep my peripherals in one place by simply tightening the joints with one of the included Allen keys, but the sag of this thing wasn't as easy for me to address. Now, Obata is aware of the issue with, like, a huge gigantic metal thing hanging out from, you know, one mounting point, and they actually include these little screws that you can use to compensate for some sag. The issue is that my angle mount that sticks out of the left side of the chair wasn't quite manufactured with unacceptable tolerances, so while the platform is level, when swung out away from the seat, it's very saggy when it's in the proper position. The good news is that DIYing a solution to this would likely be as simple as jamming a washer or two into where the arm mounts to the base, or bending it myself, and that would only have to last until Obata's, at least if online feedback is to be believed, excellent support sends a new unit of that piece. On the subject of support, let's move on to the monitor mount, which, unintuitively, although I can see they did it this way so that movement in the chair doesn't shake the monitors, is actually a completely separate freestanding component of the entire setup. The two side arms attach to base runners with bolts, then are held together by two sliding tubes that go inside that, and then another one that sits over top of it that has a reinforced piece with an articulating arm and a VESA plate on the end that gives you distance control depending on your screen size and resolution, tilt, swivel, pivot, and a little bit of height adjust, which is handled with this screw right here. But while it has all the features that I'd want to see on a checklist, and the optional triple monitor mount with its two additional VESA plates on articulating arms mounts to the existing setup very easily, the implementation of the monitor position adjustments is probably the weakest part of the entire cockpit. A variety of lengths of the necessary bolts are included, but I had to fabricate my own spacers to keep them from damaging the backs of my monitors, and I needed two Allen keys, a wrench, a level, and an assistant to get the monitors all reasonably well aligned. Height needs to be basically guessed at since you have to support the arm to mount it, and then it'll sag once you let go, and tilt adjustments are a problem for the same reason, and because the only lock for tilt is to wrench the crap out of one screw and then hope that the friction keeps it in place. The problems aside, I do have to admire the versatility of Obadu's system, and I don't know how they could have done it better while keeping the whole thing affordable. You can get a wider range of height control if you lift up the entire thing and screw it on with a different set of bolt holes depending on your height and the monitors that you're using. I'm using the middle one, which I found was ideal for my triple 31 inch displays, or a single larger one, it would probably be good for that as well, but it'll work with basically any display with a 50, 100, or 200 millimeter VESA bolt pattern. If I had three smaller displays though, I'd likely use the lowest one since I'm pretty short, but that's the flexibility that it gives you. Let's move on to the seat and general ergonomics. The seat gets both positive and negative feedback from me. It's pretty comfortable, though maybe not as wide as some of the folks at the upper range of Obadu's supported weight might prefer, and the construction is pretty good, with mesh in the areas that heat up and this pretty cool carbon fibery pleather elsewhere. The seat is mounted to two kind of frame pieces which sit on the floor with scratch protectors at one end, and then are bolted into the main frame at the other end, although scratch protectors aside, I would definitely recommend putting this whole thing on some carpet scraps if you really care about your floor, and then the chair is bolted to that using one of two sets of holes, the normal ones and then the short people ones. Like a standard car seat, it can be reclined and slid forward and backward from there, giving the Revolution nearly limitless ergonomic options, but I have a couple of issues regardless. The first one, which is easily resolved, is to do with how time consuming these adjustments are. Between all the different bolts and wrenches and the way that adjusting one thing can create a chain reaction of other adjustments, like if I move my cup holder and, you know, shift or mount forward, then I might need to move my monitors and my chair and my footrest, it's a bit of a pain, but like I said, it's easily resolved just by spending some time on it. The second issue is a bit trickier, but I think ties in really nicely to my conclusion for the Oboto Revolution as a workstation. The chair lacks the one adjustment that I really needed, height. I like everything else where it is, but I'd like to sit a couple of inches higher, and that's the real strength of this product. Even if it's not perfect out of the box, it is a fantastic foundation if you want to, you know, run out and grab a car seat at an auto junkyard that's, you know, more to your liking and fabricate a cheap mounting adapter or riser, or add pretty much whatever else you want to it. I mean, there are some minor complaints that I haven't covered already. Cable management could have been given some more thought with random Velcro straps being the only real solution that I came up with. Getting in and out of it is a bit of a bear, even when my bloody cat isn't sitting on it. I mean, this thing is like a feline magnet, and the wife approval ranking for this product is fairly low, unless you have somewhere that you can put it where she'll never have to see it. But, all of that aside, for $800, especially when you compare that to a standalone desk and chair, it's an astonishingly well-built product, especially if you can get some use out of it for gaming as well as work, which I'll be getting into more in my follow-up video once Asus ships me a few ROG Swift monitors to hook up to it. Speaking of hooking up, our buddies over at Chiro asked us to introduce their new ChiroTUF 9000 mAh battery bank, a great addition to a travel bag for campers, hikers, skiers, snowboarders, or really anyone else that loves to spend time in the great outdoors. Great outdoors? I don't think I've played on that server before. Either way, the TUF is dustproof, water-resistant, and shock-resistant, and even has a tiny little LED flashlight. And they also have a new addition to their cable lineup, a 2-in-1 version of their Danboard Micro USB cable that we showed off last time that includes an adapter for the Apple lightning connector. That way, even if you're an Apple or Android zealot, your poser friends can still bum a charge off you, assuming you want those scrubs touching your stuff. So guys, be sure to check out both of those cool products from Chiro at the link in the video description. Thanks to Chiro for sponsoring this video, and thanks to you guys for watching. 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