Sandbox VR's Star Trek Discovery: Away Mission.
Sandbox VR's Star Trek Discovery: Away Mission.
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Hands-on with Sandbox VR’s Star Trek: Discovery — Away Mission

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

Nothing beats the fun and good times hanging out at an arcade. And that’s what virtual reality arcades like Sandbox VR are trying to bring back. I tried out the company’s latest VR experience in San Francisco, the Star Trek: Discovery — Away Mission. And we all had a really good time pretending to be Federation officers on an away mission on a mysterious planet.

As you can see in the videos embedded in this post, we were laughing away and got lost in the immersive experience of VR. And while five of us were stationed in a fairly small room, none of us came out with bruises from bumping into each other.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.