Doctor Who – Page 3 – Augmented & Virtual Reality Confabulation

February 18, 2019April 16, 2019

Doctor Who: The Runaway: Neuer Trailer und Story zur interaktiven VR-Erfahrung veröffentlicht

[Update]:

Die BBC hat einen neuen Trailer für Doctor Who: The Runaway veröffentlicht, welcher erste Einblicke in die VR-Erfahrung gewährt:

Zudem wurden innerhalb einer zeitgleich veröffentlichten Pressemitteilung neue Informationen bekannt gegeben. Demnach erwachen die Spieler nach einer Kollision mit dem instabilen Energieball Volta innerhalb der TARDIS.

Nach einer kurzen Aufklärung durch den Doctor müsst ihr gemeinsam einen Weg finden, um die explosive Lebensform im Teenageralter zurück auf seinen Heimatplaneten zu befördern. Doch eine Gruppe von Weltraumstörenfrieden macht euch dabei einen Strich durch die Rechnung, denn sie wollen die Energiekugel entführen. So bricht eine Verfolgungsjagd gegen die Zeit aus, um Volta vor seiner Explosion nach Hause zu seinen Eltern zu bringen.

Die Laufzeit der interaktiven VR-Erfahrung beträgt insgesamt 13 Minuten.

(Quellen: Doctor Who | Video: Doctor Who YouTube)

[Originalartikel vom 18. Februar 2019]:

Die britische Erfolgsserie Doctor Who wird seit 1963 ausgestrahlt und umfasst mittlerweile 851 Episoden mit wechselnden Hauptdarstellern. Nun gibt es weiteren Zuwachs im Sci-Fi-Universum, denn die BBC kündigte die interaktive VR-Erfahrung Doctor Who: The Runaway für “ausgewählte” VR-Brillen an.

Doctor Who: The Runaway – Interaktive VR-Erfahrung für Sci-Fi-Erfolgsserie angekündigt

Doctor Who erhält seine eigene VR-Erfahrung, die in Kooperation zwischen der BBC und den Passion Animation Studios (unter anderem bekannt für das VR-Musikvideo der Band Gorillaz) entsteht.

In Doctor Who: The Runaway dürfen die Nutzer in die virtuelle TARDIS einsteigen, um an der Seite vom mittlerweile 13. Doctor (verkörpert durch Jodie Whittaker) ein gemeinsames Abenteuer zu bestreiten. Als Champion des Doctors steht ihr der erfinderischen Serienfigur mit tatkräftiger Unterstützung zur Seite, während ihr eine gefährliche Situation entschärfen müsst.

Jodie Whittaker als Doctor Who | via: BBC

Jo Pearce, Creative Director des BBC-Digital-Drama-Teams, gibt einen vielversprechenden Vorgeschmack auf das virtuelle Erlebnis:

“In dieser spannenden neuen interaktiven Geschichte werden die Fans die TARDIS wie nie zuvor erleben. Darin repräsentiert Jodie mit ihrer wunderbaren Performance den Doctor wie immer voller Wärme, Witz und Charme. Doch im Mittelpunkt der Geschichte stehen die Fans, während sie in eine wunderschön animierte Welt eintauchen.”

Auch Zillah Watson, Leiter des BBC-VR-Hubs, meldet sich zu Wort und spricht über die leittragende Motivation zur Umsetzung einer VR-Adaption. Demnach wolle man Virtual Reality mehr in den Mainstream tragen und die Serie Doctor Who wäre dafür mehr als geeignet. Schließlich könnte eine VR-Umsetzung dank der enormen Reichweite des Sci-Fi-Universums, reichlich Aufmerksamkeit für die innovative Technologie erzeugen.

Regie beim knapp 12-minütigen VR-Werk führt Mathias Chelebourg, während Victoria Asare-Archer das Drehbuch schreibt. Zur musikalischen Untermalung komponiert Segun Akinola dazugehörige Soundtracks.

Das VR-Abenteuer soll für “ausgewählte VR-Brillen” erscheinen. Um welche Plattformen es sich dabei handelt, ist bisher noch nicht bekannt.

(Quellen: BBC | Road to VR)

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February 15, 2019

Doctor Who: The Runaway Is An Animated VR Adventure Coming Soon

Doctor Who fans will soon get to join an animated Doctor in a virtual reality TARDIS.

The new project confirmed by the BBC today is a 12 minute adventure including a performance by the latest Doctor Jodie Whittaker “in animated form.” Doctor Who: The Runaway “will be available on selected VR headsets in the coming months.”

Plot details are sparse for The Runaway. The official description for the project says you get a chance to “be the Doctor’s champion” as you face a “deadly threat.” So, a standard Doctor Who adventure.

Here’s our first look at the animated version:

Doctor Who: The Runaway is an animated VR adventure coming to VR headsets.

Doctor Who, for those unfamiliar, is one of England’s most famous and long-lasting television programs. For more than 50 years, “The Doctor” has visited earthlings on TV and taken them on adventures in the TARDIS. Whittaker recently became the 13th incarnation of the time-traveling character. Her ship — disguised as a blue police call box — is a perfect fit for VR given its larger-on-the-inside physics. Once inside, going through that doorway once more can take you anywhere and anytime. In many ways, the TARDIS is the perfect vehicle for a VR experience. So that makes the Doctor — a kind of intergalactic tour guide and friend — the perfect character to join you on such a journey.

The project is “produced by the BBC’s digital drama team, BBC VR Hub and Passion Animation Studios.” Doctor Who: The Runaway is written by Victoria Asare-Archer and directed by Mathias Chelebourg with music from composer Segun Akinola.

We’ll bring you updates on the project as soon as we get them.

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February 15, 2019May 2, 2019

‘Doctor Who’ VR Experience is Coming Soon to Vive, Rift & Oculus Mobile, Trailer Here

Image courtesy BBC, Passion Animation Studios

The BBC debuted their latest VR experience, Doctor Who: The Runaway, at Tribeca Film Festival last week. Now, the company’s VR division says the 12-minute animated experience, which is voiced by the original actors, is slated to land on PC VR and Oculus mobile headsets soon.

Update (May 2nd, 2019): The BBC says that Doctor Who: The Runaway is slated to arrive ‘soon’ on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive as a real-time rendered experience. A 360 version will also be made available on Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR.

There’s no firm launch date yet, but we’ll keep you posted once the BBC releases word.

Update (April 15th, 2019): The BBC have released a new trailer for Doctor Who: The Runaway which gives us a great first peek at the look an feel of the upcoming experience (see embedded video above). It looks to be a polished experience and that intriguing art style looks great in motion. We’ve also got more information on what the experience involves – courtesy of the latest press release:

“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 full experience is to receive its inaugural showing at next week’s Tribeca Film Festival, taking place in New York from Friday April 26th.

The original article covering the announcement continues below.

Dubbed Doctor Who: The Runaway, fans will get a chance to step into the TARDIS and join the Thirteenth Doctor (played by Jodie Whittaker) in virtual reality.

According to a press release, the experience is said to last 12 minutes, and will be available on “selected VR headsets in the coming months.” Just which headsets the experience will launch on is still unclear (see update).

The animated VR experience was created by the BBC and Passion Animation Studios, with Whittaker reprising her role as ‘The Doctor’.

Step Back Into the Tardis Soon with Doctor Who: The Runaway

The BBC’s sci-fi series Doctor Who has been running for years, seeing numerous doctors come and go, garnering a worldwide fan base. In 2017 the broadcaster melded the TV show with virtual reality (VR) for an experience called Time Vortex 360. Today, fans will be pleased to hear the BBC has another immersive piece of content planned for later this year, Doctor Who: The Runaway.

The new VR experience is an animated short, with Jodie Whittaker reprising her role as The Doctor. Expected to run for around 12 minutes the film will feature music from the series composer Segun Akinola.

Developed by the BBC’s digital drama team, BBC VR Hub and Passion Animation Studios, Doctor Who: The Runaway will be an interactive experience where fans will get the chance to be the Doctor’s champion and help her on this exciting adventure, as they find themselves at the centre of the action facing a deadly threat.

Jo Pearce, creative director for the BBC’s digital drama team, said in a statement: “Fans will experience the TARDIS like never before in this thrilling new interactive story. As ever, the Doctor is full of warmth, wit and charm – helped by a wonderful performance from Jodie – which puts fans at the heart of the story as they immerse themselves in this beautifully animated world.”

“Our team at the BBC VR Hub has been creating new experiences with the goal of helping to usher virtual reality into the mainstream, and Doctor Who is exactly the sort of series that can help more people to try this new technology. The show has been pushing boundaries for over 55 years, and VR enables Doctor Who to explore a whole new dimension of storytelling,” Zillah Watson, head of BBC VR Hub adds.

Doctor Who: The Runaway has been written by Victoria Asare-Archer and directed by Mathias Chelebourg, whose previous VR films include Alice, the Virtual Reality Play and The Real Thing VR. It will be available on selected VR headsets in the coming months. As VRFocus receives further updates on Doctor Who: The Runaway, we’ll make sure to keep you updated.

December 20, 2017

Doctor Who Has His Own VR Game, But It’s An Endless Runner

Stepping into the shoes of the Doctor and exploring the infinite possibilities of time and space in VR sounds pretty amazing, right? Well, that’s not really what Doctor Who’s first VR game is about.

Doctor Who Time Vortex VR is a new WebVR game that you can play in your browser on the HTC Vive or with mobile-based headsets like Cardboard, Daydream and Gear VR. Whovians might be a bit disappointed with the Doctor’s first VR offering, though; instead of jumping into the Tardis and turning your Vive wand into a sonic screwdriver, this is instead an endless runner. Yup, all you do is navigate the Tardis through a never-ending series of obstacles.

Check out the trailer below. It supports non-VR play too.

It’s not the most ambitious exploration of the Doctor’s universe in VR, then, but at least it’s free. With the BBC recently launching its new VR Hub, perhaps we can expect something bigger and better in the New Year?

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