Your Vision.
Our
Future.

Transport strategies involve complex decisions about how communities move, connect and grow over decades.

Working with KPMG and South Australia's Department for Infrastructure and Transport, the challenge was to make those ideas clear and relevant to a broad public audience — while creating a consultation tool that could travel across both metropolitan and regional communities.

The experience needed to simplify complex policy thinking without oversimplifying the decisions behind it.

Participants began by ranking five values: Safety, Sustainability, Connectivity, Prosperity and Liveability.

Those choices were then carried into a mixed reality experience, where a dynamic 3D diorama adapted to reflect their individual priorities.

Across City, Suburban, Regional and Industrial zones, the future changed around them — turning abstract preferences into something tangible they could see and explore.

Long-term infrastructure planning can be difficult to understand through reports, surveys or diagrams alone.

Mixed reality brought the strategy into the participant's physical space, allowing them to walk around the model and see how different priorities could influence the future transport network.

Instead of simply selecting what mattered to them, participants could experience what those choices might mean.

Participants completed a short survey on their phone before entering a unique code into the headset.

Inside Meta Quest, their personalised transport future appeared as a stylised 3D diorama. Using natural hand tracking, they could explore each zone and trigger animations and overlays showing how their chosen priorities affected the environment.

The standalone setup required no controllers or external computers, making the experience intuitive for first-time users and easy to deploy across multiple consultation locations.

More than 1,000 people experienced the mixed reality activation, with many more contributing through the online experience.

The project reached communities across metropolitan and regional South Australia, with participant feedback contributing to the final 30-Year Transport Strategy.

Beyond gathering responses, the experience demonstrated how immersive technology can make civic consultation more tangible — helping people better understand long-term planning while giving them a more active role in shaping it.