Polish game developer The Farm 51 is producing a unique virtual reality project that promises to place audiences in the middle of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Straddling gaming and documentary filmmaking, The Chernobyl VR Project "puts players in the role of a documentary crew," piecing together clues to help "a survivor find his family memories."

The Farm 51 got special permission to enter the Exclusion Zone and the nearby city of Pripyat, both of which it captured with high resolution cameras.

Using similar photogrammetry techniques to those seen in The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and Star Wars: Battlefront, The Farm 51 turned those images into an explorable 3D world.

The studio captured everything from 360-degree vistas to minor details like "paint peeling off the walls, scuffs on an abandoned amusement-park ride, and rust on an old cash register."

The Chernobyl VR Project is aiming for a release on Rift, PSVR, Vive, and Gear VR, though no release window has been set.