Everyday Inclusion: Built with Cornell University

Everyday Inclusion is a three-part VR training experience, co-designed with Cornell University and diversity and inclusion expert Angela Winfield, and has led PTR's inclusion library since 2018.

The challenge

Most inclusion training tells people what bias looks like, through slides, definitions and hypothetical examples. Cornell and PTR wanted something different: an experience that let people feel unconscious bias, microaggressions and intersectionality from the inside, rather than only hear about them described.

What was built

Everyday Inclusion teaches players to recognise bias and racism in the workplace, and equips managers to navigate difficult conversations with empathy and confidence. The interactive VR experience gives users a first-hand experience of bias across its three parts, exploring unconscious bias, inclusion, microaggressions and intersectionality. It is also available in French and German, extending its reach beyond English-speaking workplaces.

Everyday Inclusion was originally created with Equal Reality and has since grown into a stand-alone product line within the PTR VR Library, alongside sibling titles Finding Common Ground and Speak to Me Normally. It sits among a wider set of PTR custom VR builds addressing workplace inclusion and difficult conversations, including "Included @Optus," built to help Optus staff understand and address workplace bias, and Archer's Lab, a VR co-working space built for the Enterprising Young Women Program to help aspiring entrepreneurs build business confidence.

How it was delivered

As one of PTR's longest-running and most widely deployed titles, Everyday Inclusion has been used well beyond its original Cornell engagement: it was the module PTR drew on for Etihad Airways' cabin crew inclusion pilot and for Metro Trains' gender equity workshops, delivered each time alongside facilitated discussion rather than as a standalone VR session.

Scenes from Everyday Inclusion

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