Motorola is taking a big swipe at Samsung’s dominance in the premium smartphone segment with the unveiling of the Motorola Signature 27 at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. This device will be packing serious new hardware, such as the latest Snapdragon chipset, monster cameras, and deep AI integration.
Apple-owned Beats has unveiled the Beats 360, an all-new flagship set of over-ear wireless headphones priced at $349.99. Sitting right above the Studio Pro in the brand’s lineup, the new cans take direct aim at high-end competitors like Bose’s QuietComfort Ultra 2nd Gen and Sony’s WH-1000XM6 while introducing a modular, customizable physical
A hand-controlled, room-aware mixed reality version of Tetris Effect is coming to Meta’s new VR device, Quest 3 and 3S.
Tetris Effect: Mixed Realities is a new hand-controlled and room-aware mixed reality version of Tetris Effect that was announced today. The game will launch on Meta’s newest VR device, Meta VR Glasses.
The new Tetris seeks to take advantage of Meta VR Glasses’ key features, allowing you to control the entire game with your hands, while the device’s passthrough cameras use the geometry of your room, lighting and visual effects to transform the world around you.
Tetris Effect is a modern reimagining of Tetris designed by Tetsuya Mizuguchi and his team at Enhance, Resonair, and Monstars, which combines traditional Tetris gameplay with reactive music, particle effects, and environments that respond to the player’s actions.
Originally released on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR in 2018, it came to Quest in 2020. An updated version with multiplayer called Tetris Effect: Connected was released on Steam in 2021, while a free update was made available for the existing PlayStation VR, Epic Games Store, and Quest releases. A PlayStation 5 / PSVR2 release followed in 2023.
Tetris Effect: Mixed Realities is coming to Meta VR Glasses, Quest 3 and 3S in 2027.
A new VR release in Capcom’s visual novel adventure series brings courtroom drama to Meta VR Glasses and Quest in 2027.
Announced today alongside the new Meta VR Glasses, Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies VR is a new made-for-VR release in Capcom’s popular Ace Attorney series.
In Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies VR, you’ll use the unique capabilities of VR to examine crime scenes, build your case, and take it to court. The game uses hand-tracking to present evidence and point at or call out witnesses. Voice-activation control allows players to shout the series’ infamous “Objection!!”
A trailer was released during Meta’s keynote, and that’s embedded below:
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Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies VR is the first VR game in the long-running series, which began life in 2001 on Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance before finding worldwide sales success with subsequent releases on the Nintendo DS. Since then, 11 games have been released in the Ace Attorney series.
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies was originally released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2013, and was the fifth main entry in the series. It was also released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows in 2024 as part of the Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy compilation.
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies VR is coming to Meta VR Glasses and Quest in 2027.
At the 2026 Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit in Maui, the stars of the show are two new SoCs: the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. In addition, to deep dive briefings, we here at Hot Hardware were not only lucky enough to check out the new hardware on the show floor, but also got to run a full suite of benchmarks
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