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People Tech Revolution

Safe spaces for difficult situations.

Practice rooms for the conversations people dread, in a headset, a browser or a real room.

FEATURED WORK WITH
Scenes from the VR scenarios built for Google's DEI training in gentle motion, animated avatars practising a workplace conversation together Google VR inclusion training led by PTR co-founder Leonie Sanderson, built with Equal Reality, a subsidiary of People Tech Revolution, and Google’s employee volunteers, and evaluated in a paper at ACM CHI 2024 she co-authored. Explore the case study The Mater training's VR scenes in gentle motion, an animated nurse pausing at a table in a simulated hospital break room Mater Speaking with Good Judgement: VR communication practice delivered across Mater campuses, backed by Advance Queensland. Explore the case study VR scenes in gentle motion, two animated nurses in a hospital break room, one seated at the table and one standing nearby Mayo Clinic A Day In a Lifetime was offered to 1,149 nurse and social-worker leaders, with peer-reviewed empathy and upstander gains. Explore the case study Three shots against a bright cloudscape: a PTR facilitator fits a mixed-reality headset on a smiling Etihad cabin crew trainee, a trainee in the headset listens to the facilitator beside an Etihad aircraft, and a trainee in the headset holds the controllers beside the Etihad Airways logo Etihad Airways A two-day cabin crew inclusion pilot using the Everyday Inclusion and Mind Shift modules. Explore the case study A gliding first-person view through the disability-awareness experience's beachside cafe and service centre, hands reaching into the scene as if navigating it themselves Central Coast Council Community disability-awareness VR delivered across council services and events. Explore the case study Everyday Inclusion's VR scenes in gentle motion, three animated avatars in conversation on lounge chairs, a clock tower visible through the window behind them Cornell University Everyday Inclusion, the three-part VR experience on unconscious bias, co-designed with Cornell University. Explore the case study
Trusted by organisations around the world.
Google Mater Mayo Clinic Etihad Airways Central Coast Council Domain Group 89 Degrees East PwC IBM Intel HTC GSK NYC Department of Education NSW Police Force
Leonie Sanderson at the lectern and Simon Lowe answering a question on the panel at the PTR Immersive Training Library launch, Smart Precinct NQ, Townsville
WHAT WE DO

Four things we do, in plain words.

An employee wearing a headset stands facing a simulated senior stakeholder seated at a boardroom table, leaning back.
Making the case to someone senior, in a headset.

Training programs

Your people rehearse the hard conversation before it counts, with a debrief and a second go.

Training programs
A worker wearing a headset stands at a workshop bench while soft blue outline guidance floats over the parts of an unbranded machine.
Guidance drawn over the real bench, in augmented reality.

XR

Virtual, augmented and mixed reality: a headset or a phone puts a scene in front of you, or over the room you are in.

What XR is
A person wearing a headset talks with a face that answers back, a difficult conversation brought into practice range.
A character that listens, and answers back.

AI

Characters that listen and answer back, twins of real experts, and roleplay in a browser.

What our AI does
A web build on two screens: what the customer sees, and the page behind it.
A working web build, in front of the people who will use it.

Fast Builds

A working version of your idea in days, in the hands of the people who will use it.

See fast builds

The PTR Immersive Training Library.

Step into real workplace moments and practise what you do. Free on Meta Quest, and open in your browser.

Get it on the Meta Horizon StoreOpen it in your browser
The PTR Immersive Training Library menu in the headset, set in the app's courtyard, with a panel for each collection.
The library menu. Pick a collection and step in.

Explore the PTR Immersive Training Library

AI AND XR TOGETHER

The other person answers back.

A woman in a work shirt stands facing camera with arms folded, an AI-simulated colleague in a workplace roleplay.
An AI colleague, arms folded, waiting on what you say next.

A scene you stand in is practice. A character who reacts to what you say makes it real.

Together they turn a briefing into a rehearsal.

TRAINING PROGRAMS

The conversations where the response matters.

Pick the one your team finds hardest.

A nurse practises giving feedback in a ward scenario.
Practising feedback in a ward scenario.

Speaking up for safety. Raise the risk with someone senior, and practise hearing it too.

A frontline worker, hands open at waist height, faces an agitated person.
A worker faces an agitated person, hands open.

De-escalation. Rehearse the first few seconds at the counter, the bedside or the bus door.

A manager listens as an employee speaks carefully, hands together.
A manager listens as an employee speaks.

Difficult conversations. Feedback, complaints and bad news, practised with someone who answers back.

A performance and feedback scenario shaped by bias, from the Google training.
A feedback scenario from the Google training.

Bias and inclusion. Feel exclusion from the inside, then practise the words that change the room.

Run it under your brand, with your trainers or ours.

See every training program

Conversations in your field.

A bedside needs different practice from a classroom.

Choose your field
A man wearing a VR headset stands at a hospital bedside facing a floating panel of three choices, a patient in the bed beyond
Healthcare and medical
A nursing student wearing a headset sits facing a simulated patient, one hand open in a careful gesture, practising how to deliver difficult news.
Education practice
A care worker wearing a headset stands with a simulated resident in an armchair and a simulated family member, rehearsing a three-way conversation before it happens for real.
Aged care and disability
A sheriff's officer directs an older man inside. A VR training scenario for justice and community services.
Justice and community services

When the conversation is part of the job.

Explore workplace practice for feedback, service and the conversations people rehearse.

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.
Mining and resources
A manager wearing a headset sits facing a simulated team member across a small table, rehearsing a performance feedback conversation in a plain meeting room before having it for real.
Workplace and enterprise
A frontline officer wearing a headset stands behind a public service counter, facing a simulated member of the public who leans in, agitated, practising de-escalation.
Government services
A simulated rail maintenance yard at dawn, rolling stock and gravel ballast in cold, misty light. A woman wears the headset; a colleague stands beside her by the track.
Transport and logistics
Choose your sector
EVIDENCE

What changes when people practise.

A People Tech Revolution team member fits a VR headset on a guest and holds out the controllers at the PTR Immersive Training Library launch in Townsville.
Fitting a headset for a guest at the PTR Immersive Training Library launch, Townsville.

1The cost of getting it wrong

Australia

34.8 working weeks

median time lost per serious mental health condition claim in Australia (2023-24 claims), almost 5 times the 7.0 weeks across all other serious claims.

Source: Safe Work Australia

A$68,600

median compensation paid per serious mental health condition claim in Australia (2023-24 claims), more than 4 times the A$16,100 across all other serious claims.

Source: Safe Work Australia

Other currencies convert from A$ at the Reserve Bank of Australia rate for 13 October 2026, rounded.

United States

57,610

workplace violence cases in US private industry needed days away from work, job restriction or transfer over 2021-2022.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

72.8%

of those cases were in health care and social assistance.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

2What practice changed in our published work

841

nursing leaders took part in a Mayo Clinic study: empathy rose in the group that did the VR training and fell slightly in the comparison group. Peer reviewed.

82%

average agreement (4.1 out of 5) that the VR training was better than Google's standard DEI training.

7 of 26 trainees returned the survey.

Over 96%

of participants wanted more of their training delivered in VR. Mater Education pilot report.

3Time to learn

30 minutes

could possibly be enough in VR to learn what took two hours in a classroom, PwC found in its study of VR soft-skills training.

Course time only; headset set-up and familiarisation add time.

Source: PwC

Tell us the conversation your people find hardest. We will show you how a pilot would run.

Ask about a pilotSchedule an Intro Call

Explore research and evidence

Download the evidence.

PLAN IT

What buyers ask first.

START FROM YOUR ROLE
Choose your role
XR

Behaviour changes through practice.

XR is virtual, augmented and mixed reality: a headset or a phone puts a scene in front of you, or over the room you are in.People Tech Revolution builds practice scenarios, products and demos with it.

Choose an XR topic
A man wearing a mixed-reality headset raises his hands, mirrored by a long-haired avatar, in a simulated hospital room
Explore XR
AI

Applied AI for sensitive conversations.

People are already taking their hardest questions to general-purpose AI. We build systems designed for that weight.

Explore AI
A digital twin avatar, a woman in a striped blazer, appears on a mirror-style display ready to hold a conversation, a hospital corridor and patient room behind her
Didymo
Simon's Twin, live on this page. Simon Lowe, PTR's CEO, as a live digital twin.

Meet Simon Lowe, PTR's CEO, as a live digital twin.

Ask PTR’s CEO, Simon Lowe’s digital twin a question. Talk with the live avatar here, then explore Didymo for your own business.

Explore digital twins Learn about Didymo

DIDYMO DIGITAL TWINS

Four ways into a Didymo digital twin.

Simon's Twin runs on Didymo. Chat, call, meet the avatar or book time, on the phone or browser you already have.

A tester types a message into a phone beside a designer. An AI roleplay scenario for digital twins.

Chat

Type a question on your phone or in the browser. The twin answers in text, drawing only on material the organisation has approved.

Explore chat A man holds a phone to his ear in a dark studio, a ribbon of light running from a stack of message panels to the handset.

Voice

Speak instead of typing. A voice call with the twin, on the phone or in the browser, in the twin's own voice.

Explore voice A supervisor speaks to camera from a site office, a hard hat on the shelf behind her.

Avatar

A live face on your phone or laptop screen, for the conversations that need one.

Explore the avatar A booking panel with a calendar beside the chat. A first person AI roleplay scenario for digital twins.

Book

Book real time with the person the twin represents: a Google Meet appointment, made straight from the conversation.

Explore booking

Didymo. A twin that speaks for your business.

Simon's Twin above runs on Didymo: his voice and face, answering at any hour. Your twin does the same for your business, from the way your best people explain it.

Simon's Twin answering, on Didymo.
Simon's Twin answering, on Didymo.

Bring the questions your customers ask to a twin of your own, just as Simon has.

Explore Didymo

FAST BUILDS

From an idea to something people can use.

Bring the problem and the people who will use it; we build a working version and put it in their hands early.
A person reclines in a hospital bed facing someone wearing a mixed-reality headset, city towers filling the window between them A man wearing a mixed-reality headset points toward an avatar in a white coat, in a simulated meeting room A woman in a red blouse lifts a black VR headset onto her face with her hands, against a plain grey backdrop
Explore Fast Builds
OUR WORK

What we built, who used it and what changed.

Hospitals, workplaces, councils and universities bring us the conversation their people find hardest. We build the practice, and their teams rehearse it.

An older woman wearing a VR headset stands face to face with a nurse in Mater scrubs, both with their hands raised, in a simulated hospital room.
A Mater nurse, face to face in VR.

Speaking up at Mater. Mater’s feedback program, rebuilt in VR. Its own facilitators were trained to run it.

An office desk scenario in the Google DEI training, an overheard conversation involving tokenism.
A desk scene from the Google training.

Inclusion at Google. Leonie Sanderson led it, built with Equal Reality, a subsidiary of People Tech Revolution.

A cafe scenario for practising supported movement.
Trying a seaside cafe scene in a headset.

Central Coast Council. Everyday barriers felt from the inside, now built into teacher and staff training.

Two colleagues stand in a lunch area with a floating panel of responses between them, seen through the headset.
Two colleagues, and a choice of replies.

Cornell University. Co-designed with Cornell, Everyday Inclusion has since run with airlines and rail operators.

A new starter waits in the staff kitchen. A first person VR training scenario for workplace and enterprise, seen through the headset.
A new starter waits for your reply.

Choose the conversation. From induction to bedside bad news, practised in a headset or a browser.

A clinical scenario for practising conversation.
A nurse in scrubs tries a clinical scenario.

Proof for sign-off. Mayo Clinic tested the program People Tech Revolution built against a control group.

CLIENT VOICE · DOMAIN GROUP
“I don't think role plays will ever cut it again in this space.”
Nic Barry, Digital Learning & Organisational Capability, Domain Group
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XR and AI explained.

Start with XR explained: what changes when a headset puts you inside a situation. Then see how AI and XR work together when that person answers back.

Explore Learn

A facilitator explains the spectrum to two people standing where a plain gallery room gives way to a virtual landscape. A VR training scenario for what is extended reality.
XR explained
A twin forms above knowledge objects. A first person AI roleplay scenario for digital twins.
AI Digital Twin conversations
An adult sits facing a floating head-and-shoulders presence of a subject-matter expert digital twin, backed by soft abstract light, practising a one-to-one conversation.
AI and XR
A facilitator and participant discuss a completed staged exchange. A VR training scenario for immersive XR.
Talking a scenario through with a facilitator.

Tell us the conversation your team finds hardest.

We will show you how teams like yours rehearse it, what a pilot looks like, and the evidence your clinical, safety or HR owner will ask for.

Open the contact formBook a time with our team

Latest News from PTR

Follow the Google study from the headset to the discussion afterwards. Explore healthcare training and the Library launch to see how the work reaches people.

Explore PTR news

WHERE WE STARTED

It started with listening. Now it's about delivering.

In 2016 Leonie Sanderson and Simon Lowe took The Ageing Revolution on the road. In libraries, cafes and markets they sat with older people and asked one question: what does ageing feel like? Listening first is still how we work. Today People Tech Revolution delivers practice rooms where your people rehearse the conversations they dread, in a headset, a browser or a real room.

"Ageing is when you do what you want, not what someone else wants."

A storyteller, The Ageing Revolution, 2016

Older people sit in a circle of armchairs in a library, listening as one of them speaks, with Leonie Sanderson seated among them.
A storytelling circle in the library at Mount Tamborine, May 2016.
Simon Lowe smiles beside older women at an outdoor seaside cafe table.
Simon Lowe on The Ageing Revolution's Queensland road trip, June 2016.
Leonie Sanderson, in an Ageing Revolution shirt, laughs with an older woman beside the stall, a chalkboard behind them asking for words of wisdom for younger generations.
Leonie Sanderson at The Ageing Revolution's stall in Darwin, July 2016.

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Leonie Sanderson and Simon Lowe, co-founders of People Tech Revolution

Technology is the medium. People are the point.

Safe spaces for difficult situations.
“We create safe spaces for difficult conversations and situations.”
Simon Lowe, PTR's CEO
Psychological safety is designed in, not bolted on.
About People Tech Revolution
The courtyard where every session in the PTR Immersive Training Library begins: a timber leaf sculpture above a fountain pond.

PTR Immersive Training Library

Download it free on Meta Quest. No headset? Open it in your browser with a free PTR Portal account.

Get it on the Meta Horizon Store Create your free account Download the library overview

Coming soon to PICO and other XR platforms.

LABS DEMOS

Try what we're building.

Explore working demonstrations of immersive training, XR, AI and interactive experiences for healthcare, education, government and enterprise.

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The PRACTICE lane on PTR Labs Demos: three of its roleplay characters shown one after another in cinematic office settings, a golden-hour boardroom, a customer lounge and a dusk meeting room
PRACTICE
The PLAY lane on PTR Labs Demos: a slow moving view through three environments from the 360 Immersive Experience, a museum hall, a hospital room and a modern waterfront, animated from the experience's real 360 scenes
PLAY
The CREATE lane on PTR Labs Demos: a chibi character modelled on PTR's co-founder runs toward the camera through Scope Creep Sprint's world, leaping an office chair and a jammed printer
CREATE
The CONNECT lane: a six-person video call grid bringing a distributed organisation together, among them a woman using a wheelchair and a man dialling in from a greenhouse
CONNECT
The CONSULT lane: Simon leads an adaptive AI consultation, talking a client through a tailored recommendation shown on a tablet between them
CONSULT
The COLLABORATE lane: Leonie leads a co-design workshop at a whiteboard, mapping ideas with sticky notes while the group gathers around her
COLLABORATE
AI STUDIO DEMOS

Build and manage AI for your organisation.

See applied AI in action. Explore demos of digital twins, adaptive AI consultation and collaborative AI tools.

Explore AI Studio Demos ↗
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
Keia Hobbs, MD
PTR demonstrated a profound understanding of the intricacies of human behaviour, crucial in crafting meaningful and impactful experiences. I wholeheartedly endorse PTR and their commitment to creating impactful experiences.
Keia Hobbs, MD
Assistant Dean of Graduate Medical Education, University of Illinois Chicago
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Mayo Clinic Etihad Airways Commonwealth Bank Mater ViacomCBS University of Illinois BCG Charles Darwin University IBM NYC Department of Education MCCI Intel NSW Family and Community Services Port Macquarie-Hastings Council Queensland Government Singularity University Southern New Hampshire University University of Twente Woodside 89 Degrees East
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