Co-designed with the Mayo Clinic team and their employees, drawing from the lived experiences of the nurses at Mayo Clinic. A Day In a Lifetime is a series of short VR experiences focused on hospital staff and patients highlighting issues of bias, racism, discrimination, difficult conversations and allyship.

Beyond Just Perspective Taking

This experience pushes beyond just perspective taking. We have users go back into scenarios as themselves, and talk/interact as they would in real life. The goal was to really drive practicing being comfortable in uncomfortable situations where allyship was required. A fire-drill for high stakes social interactions. Driving the principle of doing something when you see something.

Replayability and “being comfortable with being uncomfortable”

The goal was to make the practice element of these experiences as replayable as possible. Ultimately we wanted this experience to be just as valuable on the users’ 100th time as it was on their first exposure to the scenario. Immersing users in difficult moments and allow them to step up, be brave and practice allyship in VR.

We believe this will set a new standard for simulation training and innovation within healthcare and hospitals more broadly. Once this program has been rolled out and evaluated, we will make this publicly accessible for other healthcare providers across the globe.