--- title: "Case studies: VR and AI training used by real clients" description: "Client by client: what PTR built, who asked for it and what happened when people used it, across healthcare, education, government and the workplace." canonical: https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies --- [Our Work](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work) / Case Studies # Case studies What organisations asked for, what their people practised, and what changed afterwards. Each case study names what was built and how the client experienced it. Google and Mayo Clinic were also independently peer reviewed and published; for the academic detail, see [Research and evidence](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/research-evidence). ## Download the case studies Client evaluations and published research behind our work. Download the PDFs to share with your team, or request the full Mayo Clinic case study. Case study ### [Mater Immersive Learning Pilot closure report](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/mater-speaking-with-good-judgement) Mater Education program evaluation, PDF [Download the Mater case study PDF](https://peopletechrevolution.com/uploads/docs/people-tech-revolution-mater-immersive-learning-pilot-case-study.pdf) [Read about the case study](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/mater-speaking-with-good-judgement) Case study ### [Interactive Learning Tools: Food Education Case Study](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/cook-it-food-education) FoodStream Network classroom evaluation, PDF [Download the Cook It! case study PDF](https://peopletechrevolution.com/uploads/docs/people-tech-revolution-cook-it-food-education-case-study.pdf) [Read about the case study](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/cook-it-food-education) Research paper ### [Leveraging Virtual Reality to Enhance Diversity and Inclusion Training at Google](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/research-evidence/vr-dei-training-google-chi-2024) Peer-reviewed paper, CHI EA '24, PDF [Download the Google research paper PDF](https://peopletechrevolution.com/uploads/docs/people-tech-revolution-google-vr-inclusion-training-chi-2024.pdf) [Read about the research](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/research-evidence/vr-dei-training-google-chi-2024) Case study, on request ### [VR training for nurse leaders at Mayo Clinic](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/research-evidence/vr-nursing-leaders-mayo-clinic) Peer-reviewed papers in JONA (2024) and Social Science & Medicine (2025), publisher copyright. Full text on request, not on this website. Request access to the full Mayo Clinic case study [Read about the case study](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/research-evidence/vr-nursing-leaders-mayo-clinic) > "VR training bridges the gap between theoretical learning and real-world application, ensuring that the knowledge gained is both relevant and actionable." Simon Lowe CEO, People Tech Revolution. [Let's be prepared, Global Best Practice Group, August 2024](https://globalbestpracticegroup.com/vr/) ## The case studies ### Mater Education: Speaking with Good Judgement PTR brought branched VR scenarios into Mater Education's Speaking with Good Judgement culture program, letting healthcare staff practise psychologically safe feedback conversations inside familiar hospital environments. Delivered face to face to more than 60 participants across Mater's Queensland campuses. Mater Education's program evaluation found 93% enjoyed the experience and 96% wanted more VR based learning. [Read the case study →](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/mater-speaking-with-good-judgement) ### Mayo Clinic: A Day In A Lifetime Built by People Tech Revolution and co-designed with Mayo Clinic nursing staff from their own lived experience, this series of short VR scenarios helps nurse leaders confront bias, racism and difficult conversations. Delivered to more than 1,100 nurse and social worker leaders across three campuses, and published in a peer reviewed Journal of Nursing Administration paper. [Read the case study →](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/mayo-clinic-a-day-in-a-lifetime) ### Google: VR DEI training PTR co-founder Leonie Sanderson co-designed four VR scenarios with Google's DEI volunteers, putting trainees inside a difficult workplace situation from two different perspectives. Published as a peer reviewed case study at CHI 2024: 10 of 11 testers who answered the optional survey said the scenarios felt real. [Read the case study →](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/google-vr-dei-training) ### Metro Trains: Driving change With Grit Leadership, PTR delivered three VR workshops using the Everyday Inclusion module, helping Metro Trains' operational leaders see how policy and culture can limit women in roles like train maintenance. [Read the case study →](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/metro-trains-gender-equity) ### Etihad Airways: Flying towards inclusion With Utano Global, PTR ran a two-day 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 36 participants. [Read the case study →](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/etihad-cabin-crew-inclusion) ### Central Coast Council: Raising awareness of disability Co-designed with the Council's own Access and Inclusion Reference Group, this VR experience gives a first-person view of navigating a beach and a shopping centre with a disability. Delivered more than 200 times across the community, including in teacher training, council staff training and CSIRO facilitated sessions. [Read the case study →](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/central-coast-council-disability-awareness) ### FoodStream Network: Cook It PTR partnered with FoodStream Network on Cook It, a hands-on food education program for New York City schools that replaces textbook lessons with cooking, teaching nutrition, maths and cultural appreciation to students from migrant backgrounds. [Read the case study →](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/cook-it-food-education) ### Cornell University: Everyday Inclusion Co-designed with Cornell University and diversity and inclusion expert Angela Winfield, Everyday Inclusion is a three-part VR experience exploring unconscious bias, microaggressions and intersectionality. [Read the case study →](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/everyday-inclusion-cornell) ### J.P. Morgan: an inclusion pilot its own teams ran Local J.P. Morgan staff ran VR inclusion events from Equal Reality, a subsidiary of People Tech Revolution, in several countries, without on-site support. [Read the case study →](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/jp-morgan-inclusion-pilot) ### Domain Group: feeling exclusion before the workshop Domain staff experienced bullying and exclusion in Equal Reality VR, then took it into workshops run with mwah. [Read the case study →](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/domain-group-inclusion-rollout) ### ViacomCBS: bias training people took remotely Equal Reality web-based VR and facilitated video workshops, built when staff could not share headsets. [Read the case study →](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/viacomcbs-unpacking-bias) ### A major bank: inclusion practised at the counter Bank staff felt a customer being refused for his sexuality in Equal Reality VR, then practised speaking up. [Read the case study →](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/bank-lgbtq-inclusion-pilot) ## Browse by focus Each focus page holds the studies from one sector, with the scene each program was built around and what the client reported. [Featured. Hard conversations, in the rooms they happen in. Four PTR engagements, from a hospital VR pilot to a peer reviewed Google study, that show the range of what immersive training delivers.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/featured) [Healthcare and medical. Practising the words before the shift. How Mater Education and Mayo Clinic used PTR's VR training for psychologically safe conversations and nurse leadership development.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/healthcare-medical) [Education. Classrooms where the lesson is a conversation. How PTR's immersive learning has been used in schools and universities, from a NYC food education program to a Cornell-designed VR module.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/education) [Government and public sector. The public counter is the hardest room. How Central Coast Council used PTR's VR to raise disability awareness across its community, staff and partner training programs.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/government-public-sector) [Aged care and disability. Seeing the day from the other chair. How Central Coast Council used PTR's VR to build first-person disability awareness across its community and staff training.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/aged-care-disability) [Workplace and enterprise. The office moments people replay for days. How Google, Metro Trains, Etihad and Cornell University used PTR's VR training to build inclusion and challenge bias at work.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/workplace-enterprise) ## The PTR VR Library Ready-to-run titles your team can use this month. Pick the moment you want people to practise. [Everyday Inclusion. Feel bias at work, not just read about it.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/everyday-inclusion) [Mind Shift: Glass Ceilings. Your idea, repeated back by someone else.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/mind-shift) [Mind Shift: Inclusive Perspectives. A water-cooler chat about who deserves promotion.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/mind-shift) [Speak To Me Normally. Social anxiety at work, from the inside.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/speak-to-me-normally) [Lift VR. A hard ask, in the time it takes a lift to climb.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/lift-vr) [Finding Common Ground. A customer refused, and a colleague who sees it.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/finding-common-ground) [Browse the full VR Library](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library) ## The conversations these projects were built for Each study started with one exchange a client wished its people had handled better, and that exchange became the scene. [Mater Education. A feedback conversation between colleagues, rehearsed in recreations of the rooms it happens in.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/mater-speaking-with-good-judgement) [Mayo Clinic. Speaking up when something is wrong, practised by nurse leaders before the moment arrives.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/mayo-clinic-a-day-in-a-lifetime) [Google. Everyday interruptions and who gets talked over, put in front of the people it happens to.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/google-vr-dei-training) [Metro Trains. Bias in a depot where it is rarely said out loud, brought into the open.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/metro-trains-gender-equity) [A lounge scenario for welcoming a traveller.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/etihad-cabin-crew-inclusion) See a result here you want for your own team? [Open the contact form](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies#contact) Ask our CEO Simon Lowe’s Digital Twin a question