Equal Reality VR

Equal Reality VR is a suite of longer immersive experiences that explore discrimination, gender inequity and allyship, and tackle bias, microaggressions and intersectionality. Originally created with Equal Reality and now a stand-alone PTR product vertical, the suite includes three apps.

• Everyday Inclusion ("Most inclusion training tells you what bias looks like. Everyday Inclusion lets you feel it.") A three-part VR experience exploring unconscious bias, inclusion, microaggressions and intersectionality, co-designed with Cornell University and diversity and inclusion expert Angela Winfield. Also available in French and German. See the Everyday Inclusion case study.
• Finding Common Ground ("A two part experience about discrimination in a customer facing workplace, and what a team is expected to do about it.") Designed in collaboration with a major Australian bank, based on a real-life incident of discrimination.
• Speak to Me Normally ("Speak To Me Normally puts you inside the experience of social anxiety at work.") A first-person perspective on social anxiety, designed from lived experience.

Mindshift VR

Mindshift VR offers interactive VR experiences set in virtual workplaces, covering microaggressions, unconscious bias, inclusive hiring and team inclusivity, designed to slot straight into workshops and other training. Current titles include:

• Mind Shift: Glass Ceilings ("A meeting starts. Ideas get raised, dismissed, then repeated back by someone else to a warmer reception.")
• Mind Shift: Inclusive Perspectives ("An ordinary chat by the water cooler turns to who deserves a promotion, and why.")

Lift VR

Lift VR builds leaders' ability to respond to sensitive situations in their own voice, designed in collaboration with diversity partner Kinspace. The user is placed in a lift with someone who needs something difficult from them, and practises courageous, psychologically safe decision-making ("You step into a lift. So does someone who needs something difficult from you.").

Where the Library gets used

The same titles keep getting booked back for facilitated workshops rather than run as a one-off novelty. Two recent examples used the Equal Reality VR vertical's Everyday Inclusion module as the centrepiece of a longer, facilitated program:

Practical considerations

The Library runs on standalone Meta Quest headsets. Please confirm current device support with PTR directly before a booking, since supported models can change as new hardware ships. In both the Etihad and Metro Trains programs above, the VR modules ran inside a longer facilitated session, paired with group discussion, rather than being handed to participants to use alone, and each session was split by audience so the discussion could focus on that group's own barriers. Sessions generally run 4 to 10 minutes per title, so a workshop booking should budget time for the facilitated conversation around the VR, not just the headset time itself.

New to virtual reality itself? Start with What is Virtual Reality?. To see the titles above running as real builds, visit LABS DEMOS.