Accidental Steam Store post shows new look at Valve Index VR

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  The flip-up headphone design will be familiar to anyone who has used the Oculus Rift. [credit: Valve / ResetEra ]

Monday afternoon, Valve briefly posted and almost immediately took down a series of work-in-progress Steam Store pages for its recently revealed Valve Index VR headset. But that was enough time for Twitter's Wario64, members of the ResetEra forums, and other sources to view the page online and capture the scant information available on the still-incomplete, lorem-ipsum-laden pages.

(Yes, we know today is April 1 and that all online information is inherently suspect today. But if the brief store postings apparently seen by multiple independent sources were a joke, they are an incredibly subtle one.)

The most interesting bit from the posting is the apparent front-on view of the headset itself, which shows a set of flip-up, over-ear headphones hanging down from either side. That style of integrated headphones was a big distinguishing feature on the Oculus Rift but has been removed from the upcoming Rift S in favor of subtle near-ear speakers in the headband.

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