The BBC has announced an upcoming virtual reality (VR) experience for their long running sci-fi show, Doctor Who, entitled “Doctor Who: The Runaway.” According to the announcement, the 13-minute animated experience will feature the 13th Doctor (played by Jodie Whittaker), and will premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. It will be available in the coming months on Oculus Rift & HTC Vive, with a 360 version for Oculus Go, Gear VR, and YouTube, according to DoctorWho.tv. While the BBC has stated that the experience will be interactive, it has not specified how that interaction will work or to what level, especially considering it being posted to YouTube.

Originally teased in February, the new announcement gives us the trailer above, as well as information about the storyline of the experience:

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.

Synopsis from BBC.co.uk

“Doctor Who: The Runaway” was developed by the BBC’s digital drama team, BBC VR Hub, and Passion Animation Studios (known for the Gorillaz VR music video “Saturn Barnz (Spirit House)”). The up-and-coming writer Victoria Asare-Archer is behind the story of the experience, and is joined by veteran VR director Mathias Chelebourg, whose pervious works include “Alice, the Virtual Reality Play” and “The Real Thing VR.” It will also feature new original music from Doctor Who series composer Segun Akinola.

“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,” says Zillah Watson, head of BBC VR Hub. “The show has been pushing boundaries for over 55 years, and VR enables Doctor Who to explore a whole new dimension of storytelling.”