No Man's Sky Beyond VR lets you do all that you can do in the PS 4 game.

No Man’s Sky Beyond VR hands-on — A huge galaxy in virtual reality

No Man’s Sky is live in virtual reality. Not just a piece of it, or a demo version. No Man’s Sky Beyond VR is entirely accessible through the Sony PlayStation VR headset. You can visit the whole darn galaxy if you want. And if you have been playing it a lot, you can see your whole galaxy in VR.

Sean Murray, cofounder of Hello Games, showed me the VR version of No Man’s Sky Beyond at a Sony preview event. He popped me into a headset and I was on a planet in No Man’s Sky Beyond, inside virtual reality. No Man’s Sky original came out on the PlayStation 4 and PC in 2016. It got overhyped at first, but for the past 2.5 years, Murray’s team has been religiously upgrading the experience.

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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.