The push is for a shift from passive to active, empathetic learning, where AI-powered tutoring paired with mixed reality enhances both technical skills and humane care.

The program targets gaps in traditional training and existing VR solutions, addressing scalability limits and realism that can impede empathy in patient care.

Training centers on a patient case, Mr. Jones, to teach both hard skills and soft skills, including communication and family considerations, for holistic medical education.

Future iterations could bring smart glasses into classrooms, enabling highly realistic avatars and holograms for near-to-midterm experiences.

The approach evolved from live-action VR to mixed reality using Quest 3 and pass-through to place procedural visuals in the real environment, creating a “textbook come to life” experience.

AI will personalize tutoring, tailoring content to individual performance and focus areas as an intelligent tutor.

Lightshed.Health, with Johns Hopkins Schools of Nursing and Medicine, is developing realistic mixed reality medical training to augment—not replace—current methods.