About

Technology is the medium. People are the point.

A nurse practises speaking up to a senior colleague before the shift where it counts. People Tech Revolution builds that rehearsal room in virtual reality and AI, co-designed with your own practitioners and backed by published research.

Leonie Sanderson, PTR co-founder, fitting a headset for a participant.

A worker in a headset stands on a rain-soaked verandah as an older woman opens her front door. — A home visit in the rain, rehearsed first.

Practise the moment before it is real

A worker waits on a rain-soaked verandah with one sentence to get right, and she has never said it to anyone before. That is the moment PTR builds for.

Your people rehearse it in VR or with an AI partner, as often as they need, with nothing real at stake. You get the scene in their own words, the debrief built in, and published evidence to hand to a board.

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Where to go from here

Who we are, how we work, and the news from the rooms we work in.

PTR co-founder Leonie Sanderson laughing in a close studio portrait, purple disc earrings and a dark floral top against a plain grey backdrop.

Our story. See where the method came from, from The Ageing Revolution to the PTR VR Library, told a year at a time.

A workshop table where a team works through a scenario together.

Our approach. Find out what a build asks of you: the DICE test, five stages, and the workshop where your practitioners shape the scene.

A co-founder leans in, listening closely as a participant wearing a VR headset raises both hands, seated face to face in a sunlit community hall with ceiling fans overhead

Our values. Judge us on them: community, excellence, trust and creativity, and how each one shows in the room.

Two luminous pale-blue wireframe hands reach toward the camera, palms open, against a deep dark background, representing the digital technology behind PTR's builds.

Partners. Meet who else is in the room: the studios, universities and organisations PTR builds alongside.

Leonie Sanderson speaking into a microphone beside Simon Lowe, who is seated and gesturing, in front of a Smart Precinct NQ banner.

News. Launches, awards, talks and the articles that examine the work.

A woman gestures toward a blank mannequin head on a bench while a colleague holds a clipboard, screens of soft colour behind them. — Colleagues talk a scenario through with a clipboard.

And the page your reviewers will ask for

Who PTR is, where information is processed, what a participant consents to, how a session leaves a record an assessor can inspect, and the versioned documents behind each answer, gathered for procurement, clinical governance, security and legal.

Governance and enterprise delivery

Leonie Sanderson in a red top and Simon Lowe in a blue jacket stand side by side in front of a blue wall printed with white phrases that each begin 'where I'. — Leonie Sanderson and Simon Lowe, PTR's co-founders.

Leonie Sanderson and Simon Lowe

They set off on a road trip, interviewing older people about ageing in Australia, and founded The Ageing Revolution.

Carked It! is the card game they co-designed with the Good Death Impact Network.

People Tech Revolution came next, and it builds in virtual reality and AI.

Leonie Sanderson holds formal qualifications in psychology and communications. Across 30 years, she has worked in Queensland Government policy, health consumer engagement, social change, co-design and published VR research. She designs and leads the workshops.

Simon Lowe came out of strategic partnerships, international business development and product, working with major brands and the NSW State Government. He leads the studio and the builds.

"Our ethos from the beginning has been about co-designing solutions alongside people with lived experiences."

Simon Lowe, PTR's CEO. Simon Lowe
CEO, People Tech Revolution. SAE University College, 2018

The principles every build is held to

They are the reason a client is sometimes told not to buy VR or AI from us at all.

A woman stands inside a glowing curved boundary with a translucent panel in front of her, a safety net drawn around a conversation. — **Psychological safety is designed in, not bolted on.** A pre-brief, an opt-out and a structured debrief sit inside every scenario that touches something painful.

A facilitator with grey hair talks through a flow diagram and sticky notes on a whiteboard while two participants, one using a wheelchair, watch from the table. — **Co-designed with the people who will use it.** Your practitioners and people with lived experience shape the scene before anyone builds.

A reviewer watches an AI conversation with the approval controls in view. — **Human judgement stays human.** A person reviews and approves what any AI in a scenario says, and a facilitator runs the room.

Two people select speech tiles by a display. A VR training scenario for People Tech Revolution. — Choosing a scene's words, tile by tile.

Your practitioners shape every scenario.

Every scenario is shaped in co-design workshops with your practitioners, in your language, around the situations they face.

The work runs through five stages: discovery and consultation, co-design workshops, prototyping and development, testing and deployment, then ongoing support for as long as the experience runs.

The table is the method

Mater runs a training program that teaches its hospital staff to have respectful conversations, and it was taught by roleplay. Mater Education wanted to test virtual reality as a delivery model, so PTR scoped the project with them.

Four people lean over a table in a dark studio, lit from below by a glowing shape resting on it. — A team leans over a lit table.

Co-designed with Mater, modelled on its hospital environments

PTR collaborated with Mater to co-design VR scenarios for the training program Mater already ran.

Some of the scenes were modelled on parts of the hospital environments in the Mater network, for realism and familiarity.

The table comes before the build, and the room comes before the scene.

Hand-drawn illustration of the People Tech Revolution team, fourteen smiling crew members wearing headphones

10+ YEARS

of immersive and game design work.

From The Ageing Revolution and the Equal Reality partnership to PTR today: health, education, government, resources and enterprise.

A PTR co-founder speaks mid-sentence in a hospital ward corridor, explaining immersive training as a nurse beside her tries on a VR headset. — Talking through a clinical scenario on site.

The people behind the method

Leonie Sanderson designs and leads the workshops. Simon Lowe leads the studio and the builds.

Around them is a small team grown slowly from former interns and people whose values match the work, and a network of partners for the parts that are built better together.

The work now spans artificial intelligence, augmented reality and virtual reality, custom-built for organisations across health, education, government, resources and enterprise.

Rehearsed in rooms like yours

Your people do this work in a workshop shed, a remote clinic, a hospital ward and a crib room at night. Each scenario is set in a room like theirs, so what they practise is what they meet on shift.

A worker in a headset at a workshop bench, a colleague in a hi-vis vest standing in the roller-door opening. — A safety talk rehearsed in the workshop shed.

A woman in a headset sits across from a man mid-sentence in a remote clinic room, red earth and a wire fence through the window. — A consult rehearsed in a remote clinic.

A clinician rehearses a ward round beside the bedside screen. — A clinician rehearses a ward round.

Two men at a crib-room table under a single tube light, one holding a mug, one wearing a headset. — A crib room check-in with a workmate.

A trainee points along the evacuation route through the hall. — A trainee traces the evacuation route.

A bearded man in a navy jacket talks across a table to two colleagues, a tablet of coloured shapes between them. — A discovery conversation with the client.

The people who shape each scene

Your practitioners and the people a scenario is about sit at the first workshop. They say what the moment contains, and the scene is finished only when they say it rings true.

A co-founder sits beside a wheelchair user wearing a VR headset, both laughing at eye level as he reaches into the scene. — Designing with the people the training is for.

Lived experience at the table

The Central Coast Council program was co-designed with the Council's Access and Inclusion Reference Group, and members of that group appear in the VR itself.

It is the pattern every project follows: the people a scenario is about help write it, then test it, then sign it off.