About
The toolbox, and where it comes from.
The five instruments on this site were developed as the practical contribution of a doctoral thesis on head-mounted virtual reality in Australian online higher education. They are published here so institutions, learners, facilitators, developers, and researchers can use them directly.
The tools
- VRIRF VR Implementation Readiness Framework
A scored 20-indicator rubric across five conditions, with action thresholds for deployment decisions.
- LSRS Learner Suitability & Risk Screener
A 12-item self-report producing a red/amber/green risk level with recommended accommodations.
- PSFP Pre-Session Facilitation Protocol
Enter your session date and the tool produces a personalised week-long facilitation timeline.
- VSFA VR-Specific Friction Audit
24 binary items across six domains for auditing a platform, with three deployment-blocking critical items.
- TAM-VR v0.1 Candidate item pool
A research-stage pool of 17 items proposing three constructs for future scale development. Not a validated instrument.
Privacy
Nothing you type into any of the tools leaves your browser. There is no backend, no database, no analytics, and no third-party requests at runtime. Your progress auto-saves to your browser's local storage, and you can export your responses as a JSON file or copy a shareable link — both of those are under your control, not ours.
How to cite
If you use one of these instruments in work you publish, please cite the thesis. If you reference this interactive version specifically — for example, in a methods section describing how you administered an instrument — also cite the toolbox.
For the instruments
McGee, B. (2026). Conditions for effective virtual reality learning: A mixed-methods investigation of HMD-VR in Australian online higher education [Doctoral thesis, in preparation, University of Southern Queensland].
Status · In preparation. The citation will be updated when the thesis is examined and archived.
For the toolbox
McGee, B. (2026). VR Readiness Toolbox [Interactive web application]. https://vrtools.brodiemcgee.com
Licensed CC BY 4.0. You are free to share and adapt provided you cite the source.
Related publications
Earlier peer-reviewed work by the author that frames the questions this thesis and toolbox address.
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McGee, B. L., & Jacka, L. (2021). Virtual reality in education. Broken promises or new hope? In S. Gregory, S. Warburton, & M. Schier (Eds.), Back to the Future — ASCILITE '21. Proceedings ASCILITE 2021 in Armidale (pp. 74–80).
Author
Brodie McGee is a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern Queensland, completing a mixed-methods thesis on head-mounted VR in Australian online higher education. This toolbox is the applied contribution of that research — five assessment instruments derived directly from the thesis findings, made freely available to institutions, learners, facilitators, developers, and researchers.