The PTR VR Library
Ready-to-run VR titles for the conversations workplaces find hardest, grouped in three verticals: Equal Reality VR, Mindshift VR and Lift VR. Each title runs between 4 and 10 minutes inside a facilitated workshop.
Equal Reality VR
Longer immersive experiences about discrimination, gender inequity, allyship, bias, microaggressions and intersectionality. Created with Equal Reality, a subsidiary of People Tech Revolution, and now a stand-alone PTR product vertical, the suite includes three titles. How Equal Reality VR began, and what organisations reported.
Everyday Inclusion, Finding Common Ground and Speak to Me Normally, each with its own page below.
The titles
Five titles, each built for one conversation. Open a title for the moment it lets people practise, how a session runs and who it was built with.
Two titles outside the Equal Reality suite
Lift VR and Mind Shift were each built for their own client conversation, one with Kinspace on leadership and one on workplace scenarios, and now sit in the Library alongside the other three.
Inside a session
Discussion around the headset experience, not a stand-alone activity: that is how every title is delivered.
A headset, a facilitator, a debrief
Each title runs for 4 to 10 minutes inside a facilitated workshop. The group is briefed, takes turns in the headset, and talks through what it noticed straight afterwards.
That conversation is where an experience about bias becomes a decision about behaviour.
"We could see how powerful VR is at giving people 'a-ha moments' and wanted to create training that has an impact on people's behaviours."
Leonie Sanderson
Co-founder, People Tech Revolution. Startup Spotlight, Aerospace Xelerated, 2023
Where the Library has been booked
The same titles are booked again. Etihad Airways and Metro Trains each used Everyday Inclusion as the centrepiece of a longer facilitated program.
Etihad Airways
A two-day pilot with 36 participants combined Everyday Inclusion and Mind Shift with Yarning Circle discussions and DEIB carousel sessions, delivered in collaboration with Utano Global.
Metro Trains
Three targeted workshops, split by audience, used Everyday Inclusion to explore why operational roles struggled to attract and retain women, delivered in collaboration with Grit Leadership.
The rooms, before anyone is in them
The kinds of space the titles are set in, seen with nobody in them, and the choice panel a title puts in front of a learner.
The room as a facilitator sees it
Who is standing where, who has the headset on, and who is waiting to go next.
Through the headset
The same rooms from the wearer's side, where the person opposite is close enough to read and the decision cannot be put off.
The first people to put it on
At the public launch at Smart Precinct NQ in Townsville on 18 July 2024, the Library went on the floor for anyone who wanted a turn.
Spaces for practising conversations
An office or shared room can provide the setting for a conversation scenario.
Carried to wherever the conversation is
The Library runs on standalone headsets, so a session needs a room and a facilitator, not a lab.
Practical considerations
Confirm current device support with PTR before booking, since supported models change as new hardware ships.
Standalone headsets, facilitated sessions
The Library runs on standalone headsets, such as Meta Quest. We agree suitable hardware for the selected titles when planning a session. In the Etihad Airways and Metro Trains programs the VR modules sat inside longer facilitated sessions with group discussion, split by audience so the conversation could go where each group needed it.
Some features need an internet connection. The Library collects no personal data, though it may collect app-improvement and analytics data.
Related PTR work
Where the Library titles get used, and the pages that explain the approach behind them.
The evidence behind it
Where the first case study started, the sector the Library runs in most, and independent research on the same approach.
Want to bring a Library title to your own team?
Sources and further reading
The research behind perspective-taking in VR, and PTR's own films of the Library.
Putting yourself in the skin of a black avatar reduces implicit racial bias
The study behind perspective-taking in VR: what changes when a person occupies another body.
Building long-term empathy: A large-scale comparison of traditional and virtual reality perspective-taking
A large comparison of VR perspective-taking against traditional methods, and how long the effect lasts.
The Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Training: A Systematic Review
A systematic review of VR training outcomes across organisations.
PTR Immersive VR Demo
In-headset footage from across the Library, PTR's most-viewed clip.
PTR VR Library Launch Event
The launch evening at Smart Precinct NQ in Townsville, filmed by PTR.
