About Us

Partners

These are the studios and organisations we build with. Some collaborations produced a product we still offer, like Lift VR.

Others brought in the expertise a training program needed, from bias-awareness content to food science.

Lift VR: a request at the lift doors.

Kinspace

Kinspace is our diversity partner on Lift VR, the leadership title in the PTR VR Library. You step into a lift, and so does someone who needs something difficult from you.

Lift VR was designed in collaboration with Kinspace. It asks each leader to personalise and adapt their own responses to sensitive situations rather than pick from a script.

A man wearing a headset stands in a workplace corridor while two simulated colleagues walk away from him without turning round.
Everyday Inclusion: two colleagues walk on past.

Equal Reality

The Equal Reality home page says it plainly: Equal Reality is a subsidiary of People Tech Revolution, and its site and email are managed by People Tech Revolution.

The Google CHI 2024 case study on our work pages was co-designed by PTR, led by Leonie Sanderson, with Google's DEI volunteers. The Mayo Clinic nurse-leader studies examine VR modules People Tech Revolution built for Mayo Clinic.

The Carked It! box with a party-hat skull on its lid, laid on a white ground beside its three decks of cards.
Carked It!: the box and its three decks.

The Ageing Revolution

The Ageing Revolution was founded by Simon Lowe and Leonie Sanderson in 2015, to change the conversation about ageing. It names People Tech Revolution on its own projects page. Publishers license photographs of older Australians from its Pikme gallery, which Simon helps to shoot.

The collaboration is live. Out of it came Carked It!, the card game about death and dying that won a 2024 Australian Good Design Award, credited to The Ageing Revolution.

Its online version is in development and user testing. The full history is on Our story.

A television screen showing Leonie Sanderson in a grey t-shirt live on ABC News, the Brisbane skyline behind her and a caption naming her Director of The Ageing Revolution.
Leonie Sanderson live on ABC News from Brisbane.

QUT Design Lab

QUT is where the founders' projects started. Our Care Journal, the app for family carers, launched there in October 2018, and the aged care trials followed a few years later.

In 2021 and 2022 Leonie Sanderson, through The Ageing Revolution, managed the Transforming Aged Care with Virtual Reality trials across six facilities in Queensland and Victoria, alongside Griffith, Melbourne, La Trobe and Monash.

A philanthropic research grant from Facebook paid for the work. The trials left a free implementation toolkit any facility can pick up, and ABC News filmed a session at Arcare Pimpama.

Collaborations that became products

Lift VR with Kinspace, Everyday Inclusion with Equal Reality and Carked It! with The Ageing Revolution each started as a shared build and are still in use.

Inside the simulation, a lift lobby in a commercial tower: two colleagues wait by the doors, one mid-remark, a panel of reply choices floating beside them.
Lift VR with Kinspace: the lobby scene.
An inclusion scenario for practising supportive conversation.
Equal Reality's Everyday Inclusion, in session.
The Carked It! card game laid out for its Australian Good Design Award entry: the black box beside the three decks.
Carked It!, The Ageing Revolution: award entry.
A participant wearing a headset stands at the end of a boardroom table, addressing four seated simulated colleagues of different ages.
A leader in the headset addresses the table.

Grit Leadership

With Grit Leadership we delivered VR workshops for Metro Trains using the Everyday Inclusion module, so operational leaders could see how policy and culture limit women in roles like train maintenance.

Head office, operational leaders and a combined leadership group each took a different angle on the same challenge. The pilot is written up in the Metro Trains case study.

A lounge scenario for welcoming a traveller.
A headset fitted in an airport lounge.

Utano Global

With Utano Global we delivered an immersive VR pilot for Etihad cabin crew, combining the Everyday Inclusion and Mind Shift modules with yarning circle discussion to build cross-cultural awareness across a multicultural workforce.

Utano Global led the facilitation and the yarning circles; PTR brought the library titles and the headsets. What the pilot found is in the Etihad case study.

"We work together with People Tech Revolution to codesign experiences and we are both committed to creating psychologically safe environments and workspaces."
Christine Mudavanhu on working with People Tech Revolution
Christine Mudavanhu, Utano Global, on working with People Tech Revolution.
Christine Mudavanhu
Founder and Principal Consultant, Utano Global. Her interview, on YouTube
A man wearing a headset holds a jug at chest height in a kitchen, cupboards and a window behind him, a VR cooking scene.
Cook It: pouring at the kitchen bench.

FoodStream Network

We developed the Cook It food-education program with FoodStream Network for New York City schools. It replaces textbook lessons with cooking, teaching nutrition, maths, science and cultural appreciation to students from migrant backgrounds.

FoodStream Network brought the brief, the funding and the classrooms. PTR designed and built the game. What FoodStream measured in class is in the Cook It case study.

Programs delivered side by side

The Grit Leadership workshops for Metro Trains, the Utano Global pilot for Etihad cabin crew and Cook It for New York schools with FoodStream Network: the partner ran the room, PTR built what was in the headset.

A simulated rail maintenance yard in cold misty light, rolling stock and gravel ballast. A woman wears the headset; a colleague stands beside her by the track.
Grit Leadership sessions: the rail yard.
A crew member wearing a headset stands facing two seated simulated colleagues, one laughing and one looking away.
With Utano Global: one laughs, one looks away.
A woman wearing a headset pinches her fingers above a kitchen bench, herbs on the windowsill behind her.
FoodStream Network's Cook It: at the bench.
A nurse in blue scrubs wearing a headset raises her hands mid-sentence in a hospital corridor with arched doorways, an older woman in a floral dress smiling beside her.
A nurse in the headset, mid-sentence.

Advance Queensland

Advance Queensland supported the VR training pilot we co-developed with Mater Education and Mater Foundation: Speaking with Good Judgement, Mater's own feedback and speaking-up program, rebuilt in VR so hospital staff rehearse the conversation in the rooms they will have it in.

The program is written up in the Mater case study and in Advance Queensland's own story.

"The Queensland XR Hub has helped us to connect with the XR ecosystem in Queensland, a leading location for the immersive tech industry. Being part of the Queensland XR Hub has its perks too. We connect with VR-curious companies through pitch days and events, landing Mater Education as our first Queensland client."

Leonie Sanderson, PTR's co-founder, arms folded and laughing.Leonie Sanderson and Simon Lowe
CEO, People Tech Revolution. Queensland is a hub for extended reality tech, Innovatia

Speaking up, rehearsed in a hospital

The Advance Queensland pilot at Mater puts staff in the corridor and at the station before they have the feedback conversation for real.

A nurse leader wearing a headset stands in a ward corridor facing two simulated colleagues, one of whom has looked away.
A nurse leader decides whether to speak.
A charge nurse in green scrubs briefs two nurses at a ward station, one of them wearing a headset.
A charge nurse briefs the ward team.

Platforms and partners

Where People Tech Revolution shows up on somebody else's site, and what each of those organisations does with us. Every outbound link below opens their page rather than ours.

Two people inspect the headset lenses. A VR training scenario for what is virtual reality.
Two people looking at what a headset shows.

ArborXR

ArborXR is a management platform for AR and VR devices. People Tech Revolution has a profile in the ArborXR XR Directory, on ArborXR's own site, and the profile is open to read.

That profile lists our device support as HTC, Meta and PICO, and the regions we support as North America, South America, APAC, EMEA and LATAM.

Where our name sits on somebody else's site

People Tech Revolution has a page on the Queensland XR Hub site and a profile on the UNE SMART Region Incubator site, which says we design and build virtual reality with impact in the health and social care sectors. Advance Queensland published the story of funding awarded to People Tech Revolution to support the development of a virtual reality training package with Mater Education. A buyer checking us can read them without asking us for anything.

An atrium scenario for practising supported exploration.
Queensland XR Hub. An atrium scenario, practising supported exploration.
 Two colleagues wait for a briefing in a meeting room, seen through the headset.
UNE SMART Region Incubator. Two colleagues wait for a briefing, seen through the headset.
 A senior policy adviser stands alone rehearsing. A VR training scenario for government and public sector.
Advance Queensland. A senior policy adviser stands alone rehearsing.
Two colleagues talk across a control room with a floating panel of replies between them, seen through the headset.
A control room conversation, seen through the headset.

XRHealth Australia

XRHealth Australia describes it this way: they have worked closely with People Tech Revolution to co-design innovative immersive applications for a pilot supporting workplace mental health and recovery in the transport industry.

Martine McCash, Vice President, Services at XRHealth Australia, ends her testimonial: "I highly recommend People Tech Revolution as a trusted technology partner." What the work covers is on the transport and logistics page.

Practising feedback in a ward scenario.
A ward scenario, practising feedback.

Mater Education

Mater Education was looking for a way to test the viability of virtual reality as a delivery model, to improve and modernise the training program they already ran. That is where the work started.

The Queensland XR Hub wrote it up as the Mater and People Tech Revolution VR Training Program case study. Ours is the Mater case study, and the research behind it sits in the Mater pilot evidence.

The brands that name us back

The Equal Reality home page says its site and email are managed by People Tech Revolution. The Ageing Revolution's projects page calls People Tech Revolution its tech arm, developing VR scenarios to challenge discrimination and bias.

A man with low vision sits with an earpiece in a quiet meeting room; a manager wearing the headset sits beside him, both facing the room, discussing an accessibility request.
Equal Reality. A manager and an employee discuss an adjustment.
 A simulated suburban kitchen in an older person's home. A support worker wears the headset at the bench while the resident sits at the table.
The Ageing Revolution. A support worker visits an older woman's kitchen.

Where the work went

The clients behind that work, and the results they saw, are on Who we work with and in our case studies. How we structure a collaboration, from first workshop to delivery, is set out on Our approach.

Inside the simulation: three executives sit at the far end of a boardroom table facing the viewer, one mid-sentence, two listening.
Who we work with. Health, education, government, transport and enterprise clients, by sector.
 A driver wearing a headset stands in a transport depot facing a simulated supervisor in a high-visibility vest.
Case studies. Mater, Mayo Clinic, Google, Etihad, Metro Trains, Central Coast Council, Cook It.
 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'.
Our story. From The Ageing Revolution in 2015 to People Tech Revolution.

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Martine McCash
Over the past six months, XRHealth Australia has worked closely with People Tech Revolution to co-design innovative immersive applications... supporting workplace mental health and recovery in the transport industry. Simon and his team have been exceptional collaborators: creative, responsive and genuinely committed to human-centred design. Their ability to understand clinical and operational needs and translate complex ideas into safe, realistic VR environments has made the partnership both productive and enjoyable. Together, we are developing practical, evidence-informed tools that build confidence, resilience and coping strategies through structured, real-world scenarios. I highly recommend People Tech Revolution as a trusted technology partner.
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Rhonda Brighton-Hall
They jump back, step away, they gasp, they try to find their voice, they ask to be included and when dismissed, they physically shrink. And when they can't do any of those things, the learning sticks and the real conversations begin.
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Sean Hunter
Working with the PTR team has been great and I look forward to continuing the relationship and developing more VR training.
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Christine Mudavanhu
We work together with People Tech Revolution to codesign experiences and we are both committed to creating psychologically safe environments and workspaces.
Christine Mudavanhu
Founder and Principal Consultant, Utano Global
SWGJ Program Lead
VR will be a game changer, helping us create ongoing opportunities for deliberate and safe practice following the live workshop experience.
SWGJ Program Lead
Speaking with Good Judgement Program Lead, Mater Education
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