Clinical training in extended reality becomes far more powerful when the scenario can sense how the trainee is coping and respond to it. Instead of a fixed script that plays out identically regardless of who is in the headset, a neuroadaptive scenario continuously infers cognitive load and stress from physiological signals — heart-rate variability, electrodermal activity, and pupillometry — and adjusts what the trainee encounters next.

The demo below makes that closed loop visible. A simulated clinical scene runs against a scrolling readout of synthetic biosensor traces. A transparent, inspectable rule combines those signals into a single load index and sorts it into a regulation band. When the loop is adaptive, the scenario responds: easing difficulty and offering scaffolding when the trainee is overloaded, and raising the challenge when they are calmly in control. Toggle adaptation off to watch the same run play out as a fixed script, inject a complication to perturb the system, and switch between emergency-medicine, pediatric-readiness, and surgical-education domains.

Neuroadaptive XR · Closed-loop clinical training

Neuroadaptive Extended Reality for Clinical Training

A VR training scenario reads the trainee's physiological state in real time and adjusts difficulty, pacing, and scaffolding as they work. Pick a domain, trigger a complication, and toggle adaptation off to see the same scenario run as a fixed script.

Training scene

Triage
Scenario clock 00:00
Next event in 6.0 s
DifficultyDifficulty level 2 of 5
Scaffolding Inactive — trainee is working within target load.

Inference rule

synthetic
HRV · RMSSD 52 ms
EDA · skin conductance 4.0 µS
Pupil · diameter 3.4 mm

index = 0.40·HRVn + 0.35·EDAn + 0.25·Pupiln
bands: <0.30 regulated · 0.30–0.55 engaged · 0.55–0.75 elevated · >0.75 overloaded

load index 0.24 Regulated

Biosensor stream · last 12 s

Adaptive

Adaptation log

Scenario armed. Adaptation events will appear here.

Illustrative demo. All biosensor traces, states, and scenario events are synthetic and generated in your browser — no real sensor, patient, or trainee data is used. The inference rule and adaptation logic are simplified for explanation and are not a validated clinical, educational, or performance tool.

All data shown is synthetically generated for illustration. This is a conceptual demonstration of the adaptive-loop mechanism, not a validated clinical or performance-assessment tool.