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Workplace & Enterprise case studies

Four workplace engagements, spanning a global tech company, a transport operator, an international airline and a university-designed VR module now used across many workplaces, show how PTR builds inclusion training around each organisation's own people and situations rather than a generic script.

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Two animated avatars in conversation inside the Equal Reality VR training scenario built for Google's DEI programme

Google: VR DEI training

PTR co-CEO Leonie Sanderson and the Equal Reality team worked with Google's DEI programme to build four VR scenarios that put trainees inside a difficult workplace situation from two different perspectives. Published as a peer reviewed case study at CHI 2024, reporting that 91% of testers said the scenarios felt real.

A scene from the VR DEI training scenario built with Google, rendered in the Equal Reality engine.

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Animated avatar of a woman mid-sentence, from the Everyday Inclusion VR module used in the Metro Trains workshops

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. Head office, operational leaders and combined leadership sessions each explored a different angle on the same challenge.

The Everyday Inclusion module, as used in PTR's VR workshops with Metro Trains.

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Photo of two men, one wearing a VR headset and holding controllers, during an Etihad cabin crew inclusion training session

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 a multicultural workforce of 36 participants.

A real photo from PTR's VR pilot with Etihad cabin crew.

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Animated scene from the Everyday Inclusion VR module, showing three avatars seated in conversation with a clock tower visible through the window

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. It is the same module later used with Metro Trains and Etihad.

A scene from Everyday Inclusion, the VR module co-designed with Cornell University.

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See also Workplace & Enterprise in Our Work's industries pages, and Research and evidence for the peer reviewed detail behind the Google study.