Dubai:Australia's BlueRoom Simulations introduced its mixed reality simulator at the 46th ICMM World Congress of Military Medicine. The simulator is designed to train medical and military personnel in medical procedures and emergency response within realistic digital environments that are otherwise dangerous, expensive, or difficult to access.
According to Wam, Dr. Dale Linegar, Chief Technology Officer at BlueRoom Simulations, explained that the system supports tactical combat casualty care (TCCC) training and simulations aboard aircraft, helicopters, and ambulances, as well as in urban, rural, highway, and road vehicle environments. Mixed reality combines physical and virtual environments, allowing trainees to use their hands and real medical equipment rather than virtual reality controllers, facilitating hands-on training in procedures such as cannulation, IV insertion, intubation, chest tube insertion, and patient triage.
The system also enables military medics to practice providing security and applying tourniquets on the battlefield, while doctors can train in surgical interventions during medical evacuations aboard vehicles or aircraft. BlueRoom's Mission Control system allows facilitators to monitor and manage training in real-time, including adjusting an offender's aggression, generating target vehicles, changing a patient's condition through a virtual patient monitor, and triggering customized scenarios.
Dr. Linegar highlighted that the simulator can be reconfigured within minutes to switch between environments, incorporating real medical equipment, new procedures, uniforms, and agency-specific equipment without custom development. BlueRoom also collaborates with Samsung to utilize wearable biometrics for monitoring trainees' physiological responses, including stress levels, allowing instructors to adjust scenarios and feedback in real time.
The system offers performance assessment and debriefing tools, including two-way radio communication, video recordings, and biometric monitoring. Results can be exported as PDFs for benchmarking by trainees and educational institutions or shared via xAPI.