Mater Immersive Learning Pilot

About this page

This page summarises a client program pilot, not an independently peer-reviewed study. It is built only from People Tech Revolution's own previously published case-study material about the pilot, plus a link to Mater Education's own pilot closure report. It does not quote the closure report's internal content directly; the report is Mater-owned, and any figure, quote or name from it beyond what is already published here would need Mater Education's own clearance. "Mater" here refers to Mater Education, the education and training arm of the Mater group, not Mater's clinical services.

What was built

"Speaking with Good Judgement: Through the Looking Glass" is a VR training experience co-designed with Mater Education, the Speaking with Good Judgement (SWGJ) team leads, and the Centre for Medical Simulation at Harvard, with custom branding, characters and environments. It places participants in familiar Mater environments, such as hospital rooms and break areas, recreated in 360-degree VR. Guided by a narrator, participants observe realistic conversations between animated characters navigating difficult feedback situations; the scenarios are branched, so learners make choices and see the consequences of different communication styles play out.

Delivery

The VR experience was built to strengthen Mater's existing "Speaking with Good Judgement" culture programme, developed in collaboration with Mater Foundation and Advance Queensland. Advance Queensland, the Queensland Government's innovation program, awarded People Tech Revolution $40,000 toward the project, and Mater Education contributed a further $110,000 as part of its partnership with Advance Queensland's Corporate Innovation Network, as detailed in Advance Queensland's own story about the pilot. A grant like this is funding support, not proof the training worked. Following the pilot, it was delivered face-to-face to more than 60 staff across Mater's Brisbane and regional campuses, alongside a workshop that trained Mater's own SWGJ facilitators on the technology so the programme could continue in-house.

What Mater Education reported

Mater Education's own program evaluation reported the figures below. Staff also reported increased confidence applying SWGJ concepts. Figures as reported by Mater Education following the program evaluation.

Read the full pilot report

Mater Education's own closure report for the pilot, "Speaking with Good Judgement: Through the Looking Glass," is published on ptrvr.com. It is Mater's own document; this page summarises only what People Tech Revolution has previously published about the pilot and does not repeat the report's internal content.

How to read this page

This is a client program evaluation, not independent peer-reviewed research; it was not reviewed by an external journal or conference before publication, and the outcomes are Mater Education's own reporting about its own programme, not an independently verified or peer-reviewed result. For independently peer-reviewed research on VR DEI and empathy training, see the papers page.