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The moment nobody gets to rehearse

People Tech Revolution builds VR and AI training for the conversations that are hard to practise safely at work.

The counterpart a learner rehearses with, mid-sentence.

Every sector has its own version of that moment: the feedback a nurse holds back, the doorstep a case worker dreads, the comment a manager lets slide. PTR builds the room where people practise it before it costs them.

Most of the sectors below have delivered programs with published results; justice and mining have their scenarios built and ready for a first cohort. Pick your sector for its projects and its evidence.

The sectors PTR builds for

The conversation each one has to get right, and the room where it happens. The pressure changes with the room; the moment somebody decides what to say next does not.

A clinician wearing a headset stands at a hospital bedside facing a simulated patient propped up on pillows, practising the bedside conversation in a ward that looks like the ward. — A bedside conversation in a ward bay.

Healthcare & Medical

Clinical and hospital staff rehearse feedback, bias and speaking up before they have to do it for real. Includes our work with Mater Education and Mayo Clinic.

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A participant wearing a headset stands at the end of a boardroom table, addressing four seated simulated colleagues of different ages, practising inclusive leadership. — A participant addresses four colleagues around a table.

Education

University inclusion training, and classrooms where students cook the lesson. Includes our work with Cornell University and FoodStream Network.

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A case worker wearing a headset stands on a suburban doorstep, facing a simulated resident in the doorway with arms folded, practising a difficult home visit. — A case worker stands at a suburban doorstep.

Government & Public Sector

Training that runs at a council event, a reception desk or a classroom, on desktop, mobile, tablet or VR headset. Includes our work with Central Coast Council and Advance Queensland.

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An adult wearing a headset sits at a cafe table facing a simulated companion, rehearsing an ordinary social moment until it stops being hard. — Rehearsing a cafe conversation with a companion.

Aged Care

Care providers and their staff, from the resident's side of the moment, including responding to changed behaviours in dementia.

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A man wearing a headset stands in a hospital staff room, a colleague with a lanyard in the foreground, rehearsing a moment on shift. — A moment on shift, in a hospital.

Disability

NDIS providers and their support workers, and direct support teams in the United States. Includes our disability-awareness work with Central Coast Council.

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"VR offers immersive, realistic simulations that help trainees develop practical skills in a safe setting. This hands-on experience is particularly valuable in fields like healthcare, emergency response, and manufacturing, where practical skills are crucial."

Simon Lowe, CEO of People Tech Revolution, mid-sentence at a lectern. Simon Lowe
CEO, People Tech Revolution. Let's be prepared, Global Best Practice Group, August 2024

Two leaders confer in a plain meeting room. A first person VR training scenario for workplace and enterprise, seen through the headset. — Two leaders confer, seen from inside the room.

Workplace & Enterprise

Leadership development, diversity and inclusion training, and organisational change programs, for the moments bias shows up at work. Includes our work with Google, Metro Trains and Etihad Airways.

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A seventeen year old sits low in his chair, hood down; a youth worker in the headset sits sideways beside him, not squaring up, rehearsing a youth diversion conversation. — A youth worker sits sideways, not squaring up.

Justice & Community Services

Immersive practice for the conversations that carry this work: court support, youth diversion, intake, outreach and mentoring. PTR builds for this sector.

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A woman in her thirties runs a pre-start toolbox talk wearing the headset, breath visible in the cold dawn light; two crew in hi-vis stand listening, one with arms folded. — A pre-start toolbox talk in cold light.

Mining & Resources

Pre-starts, fitness for work, control-room handovers and the decision to stop the job. PTR builds for this sector.

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A simulated rail maintenance yard at dawn, gravel ballast, rolling stock and mist. A woman wearing the headset speaks to two crew, one younger, one older. — A woman addresses older and younger rail workers.

Transport & Logistics

Depot and yard handovers, fatigue conversations and accessible service. Includes our VR leadership work delivered with Metro Trains.

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A woman wearing a headset stands at a service counter by a window and gestures with one hand. — A service counter, rehearsed in the headset.

Aviation

Cabin crew, ground crew and service desks: the conversations that hold a delay, a refusal or a difficult passenger. Includes our cabin crew inclusion pilot delivered with Etihad Airways.

Explore Aviation

Not sure which sector fits? map where AI fits on AI Studio demos: about five questions, each shaped by your last answer, ending in an opportunity map you can download.

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How a first build gets paid for

A grant, a regulator, a program, and a report in your name

Where the money for a first build came from, and why the next funder asks to see the report.

Three people stand in a plain room, one gesturing with both hands as she speaks, two wooden stools beside them, comparing the choices they made in a scenario. — Three people compare choices in the debrief.

Every way in leads to the same place

Three people stand in a bare room at the end of a scenario, working out what they would do differently. Getting them there takes funding, and the shape is the same each time: a funded pilot, a measured cohort, a report in your own name.

Mater Education's pilot was co-funded by an Advance Queensland grant and by Mater's own contribution. XRHealth Australia's transport pilot was already funded when PTR joined it. Central Coast Council built inside an access and inclusion strategy of its own.

How a first build gets paid for See the evidence and outcomes

The places this work happens

A scenario is built in the room the conversation really happens in, because the room is half of what makes it hard. Each caption below says which sector the setting is for and what gets rehearsed in it.

A long hospital ward corridor at night, lit by low floor lighting and the cool spill from open doorways, a simulated environment for the settings this practice happens in — Healthcare: a quiet handover on the night ward.

An open-cut mine pit at dusk, terraced red walls and haul road lights coming on under a deep orange sky, a simulated environment for the settings this practice happens in — Mining: raising a hazard at shift change.

A bright beachside boardwalk with parasols and sparkling water under hard coastal light, a simulated environment for the settings this practice happens in, with nobody in it — Government: a resident approached on the boardwalk.

A depot at knock-off, a classroom a long way from town

Two more rooms built for the sector that rehearses in them, with the same decision to practise in each.

A transport depot at dawn, rows of plain unbranded vehicles under a high roof in cold flat light and low mist, a simulated environment for this practice's settings — Transport: a return-to-work talk at the depot.

A remote-community classroom with corrugated walls and a window onto red earth and low scrub under a huge sky, a simulated environment for the settings this practice happens in — Education: answering a student in a remote classroom.

How we work across sectors

One method carries every sector above. What changes is the room, and the behaviour being practised in it.

A PTR co-founder speaks to a seated room, gesturing mid-sentence, the audience soft-focused in the foreground as she explains the method behind the practice. — A co-founder walks a room through the method.

A room, a decision, and a debrief

Every build has three parts: a room that looks like yours, a conversation or decision to practise, and a facilitated debrief that turns what just happened into what to do next time.

The room is what changes. A hospital break room, a classroom, a council reception desk, a meeting room. Each sector page links to the case studies and the evidence behind it.

Scenarios that cross every sector

Some conversations belong to no industry in particular. Adjustments, escalations, feedback, and the wait for a reply.

A team member and manager discuss an adjustment. A VR training scenario for cross-sector. — Asking a manager for an adjustment.

An employee meets a remote colleague from home. A VR training scenario for cross-sector. — Checking in with a remote colleague.

A team leader discusses escalation with a colleague. A VR training scenario for cross-sector. — Handing an escalation to a colleague.

Inside the room, not watching it

The headset turns a scenario into somewhere you are standing, and the pause before someone answers starts to feel like your own.

A colleague waits for the conversation to begin. A first person VR training scenario for cross-sector, seen through the headset. — Waiting for the conversation to begin.

A young woman waits in the staff room. A first person VR training scenario for cross-sector, seen through the headset. — Waiting alone in the staff room.

The same conversation, without the headset

Every sector here needs its own room built before anyone can practise in it. The conversation inside that room needs no equipment at all.

A lit core on a dark floor with threads of light running out to smaller pools, a figure standing in each one. — One way of working, many sectors.

Practice that does not wait for a headset

A ward, a courtroom, a rail platform and an underground drift ask for different rooms. What they share is the conversation itself, and that can be rehearsed in writing or out loud on the screen a team already has.

Which one fits depends on what has to be practised, not on what equipment is in the building.

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