This week Oculus VR updated its website to tease a press event it plans to host on Thursday, and shortly thereafter images which company founder Palmer Luckey confirms are legitimate "placeholder concept images" that are "ancient" and "nowhere close to final" were found on the website that may shed light on what the consumer version of the Rift will look like.
Based on the leaked images brought to our attention by VR Focus, Oculus at some point laid plans to release a consumer version of its Rift VR headset packed with a headset tracker, a gamepad, cables, and a "simple input device" that looks to be (based on these images) a small, simplified remote control.
This is in line with company CEO Brendan Iribe's recent comments that, over the long-term life of virtual reality tech, "there’s not going to be a single input device. In VR, it’s going to be several different devices."
The images pulled from Oculus' website also list a set of minimum and recommended PC hardware specs for running the Rift, though Oculus representatives told Gamasutra that these specs are also "outdated or inaccurate."
With that significant grain of salt, we've taken the liberty of embedding some of the aforementioned images and specs below in an attempt to elucidate what developers can expect from the consumer version of the Rift, which is expected to debut in the first quarter of 2016.
