Bias and inclusion: notice it, then say something

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

The moment

A remark lands, and the room carries on

An idea is ignored, then praised when someone else repeats it. A customer is refused because of who they are. A colleague on a video call is talked over again. People notice. Knowing what to say in the next few seconds is harder.

A video call scenario in the Google DEI training, where a colleague's technical expertise is wrongly assumed based on appearance. — A video call scenario from the Google training.

A retail customer waits for a reply. A first person VR training scenario for workplace and enterprise, seen through the headset. — A retail customer waits for a reply.

Why it goes wrong

Training describes bias; the moment asks for a reply

A slide can define a microaggression. It cannot put someone in the seat of the person talked over, or give them a second try at stepping in.

A man wearing a headset stands in a workplace corridor while simulated colleagues walk away from him without turning round. — A man in a corridor as colleagues pass.

Feel it, then choose

Perspective-taking puts the learner in the other person’s place first. Then the scene asks for a decision: call it out, call it in or let it pass, and the debrief talks through what each choice would have cost.

Every way to practise it

A library, a custom build, a browser and a facilitator

Most inclusion programs combine a ready-made title with a facilitated discussion.

A colleague faces you across a bare table with a floating panel of replies in front of him, seen through the headset. — A colleague across the table, replies in view.

Ready-made titles

Equal Reality VR, built by Equal Reality, a subsidiary of People Tech Revolution, holds Everyday Inclusion, Finding Common Ground and Speak to Me Normally. Mind Shift VR covers glass ceilings and inclusive hiring, and Lift VR was built with Kinspace.

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

Custom scenarios from your own incidents

Google’s scenarios were built with Equal Reality, a subsidiary of People Tech Revolution, from real incidents its employees shared. A custom build does the same with your organisation’s moments, written and reviewed with the people they happened to.

Colleagues in an open team area, for practising a team conversation. A first person AI roleplay scenario for applied AI in sensitive conversations, seen through the headset. — Colleagues in an open team area.

AI roleplay in a browser

An AI roleplay partner lets someone rehearse stepping in, or answering a colleague who pushes back, on a laptop or phone, as often as it takes.

A facilitated workshop

In the Etihad Airways and Metro Trains programs, Everyday Inclusion sat inside a longer facilitated program: at Etihad beside Mind Shift and a Yarning Circle, at Metro Trains in workshops split by audience.

The evidence

Peer-reviewed research, and results Equal Reality published

Evidence to take into a sign-off meeting, with who produced each result.

An office scenario for practising conversation. — An office scenario inside the headset.

Peer reviewed: Google, ACM CHI 2024

A peer-reviewed paper evaluated VR inclusion training built with Equal Reality. The 7 trainees who returned the optional survey gave 82% average agreement that it was better than Google’s standard DEI training, and 94% average satisfaction.

Download the Google research paper PDF

A nurse leader wearing a headset stands in a ward corridor facing simulated colleagues, a colleague looking away. — A nurse leader faces colleagues in a corridor.

Peer reviewed: Mayo Clinic, a controlled trial

A DEI program People Tech Revolution built for Mayo Clinic nurse leaders was tested against a control group: those who trained gained in empathic feeling (p = .002). Read the Mayo Clinic papers.

A woman stands in a bright atrium with a conversation panel in front of her, seen through the headset. — A woman in an atrium, a panel ahead.

Published by Equal Reality

At J.P. Morgan, local staff ran 7 events in 5 countries with over 200 participants, and 97% found VR more engaging than traditional training. At Domain, 89% said the VR made them more receptive to the workshop that followed.

How it runs

Run it the way your team already learns.

Workplace exchanges inside the VR Library.

Run it yourself Your facilitator runs PTR VR Library titles on standalone headsets.

Practice on a monitor, a laptop or a phone. An AI roleplay scenario for AI roleplay and practice.

In a browser Staff rehearse with an AI partner on a laptop, no headset.

A video call grid of people in their own rooms: a study, a kitchen, an office, a lounge, a home desk and a greenhouse.

Facilitated over video A PTR facilitator runs the debrief by video, wherever teams sit.

Facilitators hand over an XR practice session in a workshop room.

With your trainer A trainer you already know runs it, licensed and prepared by PTR.

People compare VR Library scene cards at a table. — People compare VR Library scene cards.

Start with the moment your people describe

Tell us the remark, the meeting or the counter your teams talk about, and we will show you how teams rehearse it. Talk to us or book a time with our team.