Mixed Reality Is Transforming Burn Care Training with Project Ember

Rethinking how surgeons learn

Burn injuries are among the most challenging conditions to assess accurately. Every patient presents differently, with factors such as burn depth, location, age, skin tone, and cause all influencing diagnosis and treatment.

Traditional training methods struggle to reflect that diversity.

Physical training mannequins can cost well over £100,000, while creating realistic prosthetic burns often requires significant time and specialist expertise. Even then, each mannequin typically represents only a single scenario, limiting the range of experiences available to trainees.

Project Ember takes a fundamentally different approach.

Using mixed reality, instructors can instantly generate realistic burn injuries that appear directly on a physical mannequin. Instead of relying on fixed prosthetics, educators can create virtually unlimited combinations of burn severity, size, location, cause, age, and skin tone, allowing every training session to present a new clinical challenge.