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Everyday Inclusion

Everyday Inclusion is a three-part VR experience within PTR's Equal Reality VR suite. Leading the way since 2018, it explores unconscious bias, inclusion, microaggressions and intersectionality, giving users a first-hand experience of bias rather than only a description of it. Most inclusion training tells you what bias looks like; Everyday Inclusion lets you feel it. It is also available in French and German.

In-app screenshot from Everyday Inclusion: three animated avatars seated around a meeting-room table during a workplace scenario
An in-app scene from the shipped build: the meeting-room scenario as participants see it.

Who it was created with

Everyday Inclusion was co-designed with Cornell University and diversity and inclusion expert Angela Winfield. It was originally created with Equal Reality and has since grown into its own stand-alone title within the PTR VR Library, alongside sibling titles Finding Common Ground and Speak to Me Normally. The full origin story, including the problem Cornell and PTR set out to solve, is told on the Everyday Inclusion case study.

What a session looks like

Everyday Inclusion's three parts generally run between 4 and 10 minutes each, in line with the rest of the Library. PTR's published case studies describe Library sessions delivered alongside a facilitated group debrief straight afterwards, rather than watched or played through on their own.

Where it has been used

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

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

Access and data

Some Library features need an internet connection. PTR states it does not collect personal data through the Library, though it may collect data for the purpose of app improvement and analytics.

Learn more

See the full PTR VR Library for the other Equal Reality VR, Mindshift VR and Lift VR titles, or try Everyday Inclusion for yourself through LABS DEMOS. For independently published research on Equal Reality-built VR DEI training, see PTR's summary of a Google CHI 2024 case study.