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Key Details

Organisation Name

Creart Digital Media Pty Ltd

Location

Marnirni-apinthi Building, Lot Fourteen, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000
Australia

Website

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eMHIC Member Status

Trailblazer

At a Glance

Description

Mirror XR is Australia’s first AI-hosted VR storyliving experience and AI-XR EdTech for future skills and digital mental health, using gaming psychology, immersive learning, and AI safety to foster empathy, immersive literacy, and youth wellbeing.

Implementation Status

Pilot initiative

Implemented through public immersive showcases and school-based pilots, Mirror XR delivers AI-hosted VR storyliving experiences that support digital wellbeing, empathy, immersive literacy, future skills, and preventive youth mental health.

Target Population

Pre-teen

children of 10-12 years old

Teenager

teenagers of 13-17 years old

Young Adults

young adults of 18-24 years old

Impact & Outcomes

2025-2026
Outcome metrics are currently under development and will be co-designed through pilot implementation, evaluation activities, and stakeholder engagement in collaboration with SASEC and Collab4Good. We are seeking alignment with eMHIC evaluation frameworks where appropriate.
100%
pre-pilot completion rate
40%
pre-pilot shows increased creative technology aspirations
100%
pre-pilot completion rate
40%
pre-pilot shows increased creative technology aspirations
Mirror XR is grounded, embedded with evidence, it’s the kind of care that’s intentional, its prevention designed and built for emotional literacy, trust, and genuine connection. It’s not just a game, although it’s fun. Mirror XR invites us to learn, to think about how we learn, to support each other, and allows us as ‘old fellas’ to evolve alongside the younger generations.

Taimi Allan, eMHIC Deputy Board Chair & Mental Health Commissioner of SA

Mirror XR has delivered immersive, future-focused STEM experiences that meaningfully engage girls in emerging technologies, including AI and extended reality. Its approach goes well beyond exposure to technology it builds confidence, agency, creativity and a clear sense of belonging within the innovation ecosystem by making complex technologies accessible, collaborative and relevant to real-world.

Melissa Lee, Stem Innovation Leader at St. Peters Girls School

Gaming, online platforms, and AI-XR technologies are rarely designed or facilitated with autistic digital wellbeing in mind. This leaves educators with limited tools to bridge differences in engagement, communication, and learning. Mirror XR’s inclusive, scaffolded digital learning experiences recognise neuro-developmental diversity, support meaningful participation and capability development.

Prof. Robyn Young, Professor of Psychology at Flinders University

This incredible research-led AI‑XR innovation offers the community, particularly youth, a pathway to communicate and improve mental health and wellbeing through ethical, immersive and creative technology solutions that can bridge generational gaps. Christel’s engagement with the SA impact community and her genuine passion and commitment to driving positive impact is an inspiration to us all.

Amy Orange, Co-Founder & Managing Director of Collab4Good

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Initiative Overview

The Current Gap

Young people are growing up inside persuasive digital worlds shaped by gaming, AI, XR, online communities, and social platforms, many designed to maximise retention, commercialisation, and behavioural influence. They often have deep lived experience in these environments, but not necessarily the literacy, language, agency, or support to interpret and navigate them safely.

Meanwhile, schools, families, and communities are often under-equipped or fragmented, leaving young people exposed to complex digital systems without the integrated learning, informed social support, or safer environments needed to protect their wellbeing, agency, and development.

Mirror XR is open to collaboration with schools, researchers, clinicians, youth organisations, funders, policymakers, and technology partners. We are exploring school pilots, research evaluation, impact measurement, safer platform development, and licensing models to support implementation beyond Australia.

We welcome partners interested in preventive youth mental health, AI-XR EdTech, digital wellbeing, immersive learning, and scalable approaches to safer digital futures for children and young people.

Our Solution

Mirror XR addresses this gap by placing young people inside immersive, story-driven environments where they can experience, practise, and reflect on real-world digital decision-making. It builds preventive capability in empathy, agency, immersive literacy, future-ready skills, and wellbeing, while demonstrating how safer digital environments can be designed with young people’s development in mind. Its whole-of-school model supports translation beyond the headset into classrooms, homes, and school communities.

As the mission extends beyond schools, this support layer has evolved into RaiseWisely, a broader whole-of-society digital wellbeing ecosystem across families, communities, research, policy, practice, and innovation.

Key Features

1

AI-Hosted VR Storyliving

Teaches digital wellbeing in and through the digital worlds young people already inhabit.

2

AI-XR Experiential Learning

Uses interactive immersion to deepen engagement, reflection, knowledge retention, and real-world transfer.

3

Integrated Digital Wellbeing Focus

Brings technology, mental health, empathy, safety, agency, and future skills into one coherent learning experience.

4

Interconnected Whole-of-Society Ecosystem

Extends impact beyond the classroom and or individual VR experience by connecting schools, families, communities, help centres, and mental health professionals.

5

Research-Informed and Clinically Informed Design

Strengthens credibility and safety by integrating evidence, clinical insight, gaming psychology, neuroscience, immersive technology pedagogy, and AI safety.

6

Built With and For Young People

Designed around young people’s lived digital experiences, needs, aspirations, current and future hybrid realities.

Collaboration in Action

Main Collaborators

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Mental Health Commission of South Australia (SAMHC)
City of Onkaparinga
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Collab4Good
GOGO Foundation
Flinders University Autism Research Initiative
Adelaide University
SXSW

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Key Learnings

The primary challenge has been developing an initiative at the intersection of innovation, research, education, mental health, and policy, where each field moves at a different pace. Mirror XR requires educating young people while also building understanding among the stakeholders who influence access, adoption, safeguards, and implementation.

Interconnecting emerging technologies, evidence-based practice, school readiness, clinical insight, and policy environments has not been easy, particularly while governance and public understanding are still catching up to the speed of digital change.
Technology is not and cannot be the only solution.

Organisations working in digital wellbeing should begin with a human-centred approach, recognising that young people need informed adults, trusted relationships, supportive communities, and systems that understand their digital realities.

Technology can enable, scale, and multiply capacity, but lasting change depends on evidence-informed practice, lived experience, safeguarding, organisational alignment, and cross-sector collaboration.

The goal is not to replace human support, but to strengthen the ecosystem around young people with and through responsible use of technology.
International collaboration is essential because young people’s digital lives are shaped by global platforms, technologies, gaming cultures, AI systems, and online communities, while support, education, policy, and implementation differ across countries.

No single jurisdiction can fully understand or respond to these challenges alone.

Collaboration enables shared learning across research, lived experience, clinical practice, education, policy, and innovation, helping Mirror XR strengthen cultural relevance, implementation pathways, safeguarding, evaluation, and scalable approaches to safer digital futures for children and young people.

Looking Ahead

Mirror XR’s next steps are to expand school-based pilots, strengthen evaluation, and refine the intervention through student, educator, parent, and stakeholder feedback. We are developing a scalable licensing model to support implementation beyond Australia, alongside research partnerships, impact measurement, and safeguarding frameworks.

Future development includes progressing Mirror XR’s game and safer platform pathway, while working alongside RaiseWisely to strengthen the broader support ecosystem around young people’s digital wellbeing, agency, future skills, and preventive mental health.
Mirror XR welcomes collaboration with schools, researchers, clinicians, youth organisations, funders, policymakers, and technology partners interested in shaping safer youth-centred AI-XR experiences. We are open to collaboration across school pilots, research evaluation, impact measurement, licensing pathways, safeguarding, inclusive design, and safer platform development, including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK, APAC, and beyond.

To explore collaboration, please contact Christel Cherryadi at [email protected]
Mirror XR envisions a future where young people are not only taught to navigate digital worlds, but supported within safer environments intentionally designed for learning, agency, wellbeing, creativity, and healthy development. Its long-term aspiration is to contribute to a new standard for youth-centred AI-XR experiences, where immersive technologies support human flourishing rather than optimising for retention and commercialisation.
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Key Contact

Christel Cherryadi
Founder | AI-XR Innovator
Creart Digital Media.com.au

Email

[email protected]

Website

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Mirror XR | Adelaide Fringe 2026 | Official Trailer

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