January 16, 2020
More Doctor Who fans than ever can now step inside a VR version of the TARDIS in the virtual reality experience Doctor Who: The Runaway on the Doctor Who YouTube channel!
The virtual reality experience was released last year on certain platforms in the UK, but now it is available globally for all to watch on Youtube.
You can watch The Runaway on YouTube VR, available now on the Doctor Who YouTube channel.
You’ve been in a collision. You wake inside the TARDIS. The Doctor introduces you to the person, or thing, you collided with. He’s a strange and magnificent ball of living energy called Volta. Part surly teenager, part bomb, Volta is very unstable. In fact, he’s primed to explode. Big time. Unless he can be returned to his home planet, sharpish. The problem is, a squad of galactic busybodies has other plans for Volta. Bad ones.
Drawn into a frantic chase, you become The Doctor’s unlikely assistant as she races against time to get Volta home to his parents. Armed with a sonic screwdriver, it is down to you to help The Doctor as she faces the forces of evil, and teenage angst, in this animated 13-minute VR adventure from the team behind Doctor Who Series 11.
The VR experience stars Jodie Whittaker voicing an animated version of the Thirteenth Doctor. The viewer crash-lands in the TARDIS and is quickly recruited by the Doctor to help return a strange and potentially dangerous creature called Volta to its home planet.
Where previously the experience has only been available to view on VR headsets like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Samsung Gear VR, the YouTube 360 version enables anyone with an entry level VR headset like a Google Cardboard to step into the TARDIS and try out the adventure for themselves.
Until now, The Runaway has also only been available in the UK, but is now accessible globally for free on the Steam store for the first time, is launching on the Oculus and Viveport stores internationally, and globally on the BBC VR app for the Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR.
The Runaway features new original music from series composer Segun Akinola, and is directed by Mathias Chelebourg, whose previous work in virtual reality includes Alice, the Virtual Reality Play and The Real Thing VR. The script was an original story written by Victoria Asare-Archer and is being published on the BBC Writersroom blog.
And if you’re a fan of VR and Doctor Who, then don’t forget you can pick up the feature-length game The Edge of Time, available for all major VR headsets.
The Doctor has been hurled through time to the end of the universe. A virus that threatens to rip apart reality itself has been unleashed. Players can pilot the TARDIS on a journey across worlds both familiar and strange to recover a series of powerful time crystals that can repair spacetime and ultimately save the universe itself.
Watch The Runaway VR on the Doctor Who YouTube Channel here and you can find more about the VR game The Edge of Time here.
