BlueRoom Launches in the United Kingdom with Exclusive Partner MKC Training

CHATHAM, KENT – On 26 February 2026, BlueRoom Simulations officially marked its arrival in the United Kingdom. In an exclusive launch event held at The Historic Dockyard Chatham, BlueRoom formalised its partnership with MKC Training, establishing a permanent presence to serve the UK, Ireland, and the Falkland Islands.

The invite-only event brought together leaders from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), NHS Ambulance Trusts, Air Ambulance services, and major government contractors. The diverse attendance underscores a critical shift in the UK’s training landscape: the need for scalable, high-fidelity Mixed Reality (MR) that stands up to the rigours of frontline operations.

An exclusive partnership to support the UK market

The launch marked the beginning of an exclusive partnership between BlueRoom Simulations and MKC Training, with MKC Training now representing BlueRoom across the UK region.

This partnership is an important step in BlueRoom’s international growth and reflects a shared commitment to delivering training that is both innovative and practical. Together, BlueRoom and MKC Training will support organisations seeking more realistic, repeatable, and logistically efficient ways to prepare personnel for complex and high-risk environments.

BlueRoom’s Mixed Reality simulator combines real equipment, real hands, and hyper-realistic virtual environments to create immersive training experiences that are both physically engaging and operationally relevant. This allows users to rehearse complex scenarios in a way that strengthens confidence, realism, and interoperability, while reducing many of the cost, safety, and logistical constraints associated with live exercises.

A permanent BlueRoom simulator at a MKC Training dedicated showroom

As part of the partnership, MKC Training is now permanently hosting a BlueRoom simulator at its dedicated showroom in Chatham. This gives organisations across the UK direct access to the capability for demonstrations, engagement activities, and training on request.

The permanent installation provides a valuable base for defence, medical, and emergency services stakeholders to experience the system firsthand and explore how mixed reality can be integrated into their own training programs.

Designed for real-world demands

Across defence, emergency medicine, pre-hospital care, and disaster response, personnel are increasingly required to operate in unpredictable, high-pressure environments where the consequences of poor preparation can be severe. Traditional training methods remain essential, but they are often limited by cost, safety restrictions, logistics, or the difficulty of recreating realistic complexity at scale.

BlueRoom is designed to address these challenges by enabling users to train for scenarios such as tactical combat casualty care, aeromedical evacuation, disaster response, and other mission-critical events in immersive and controlled environments. By blending physical interaction with realistic virtual worlds, the system allows teams to rehearse complexity safely, efficiently, and repeatedly.

This creates meaningful value not only for military users, but also for ambulance services, air ambulance operators, education providers, and other organisations responsible for preparing teams to work effectively under pressure.

Raising realism, confidence, and interoperability

A key strength of the BlueRoom platform is its ability to enhance realism without creating the burden of full-scale live exercises. Users can work with real movements, real equipment, and realistic environmental pressures while operating within carefully designed virtual scenarios that would otherwise be difficult or costly to deliver consistently.

That matters because effective training is not just about exposure to content. It is about building confidence, improving decision-making, reinforcing teamwork, and strengthening interoperability between people, systems, and organisations.

The result is a more dynamic and adaptable training environment, where scenarios can be tailored to meet different learning outcomes and operational requirements. This makes BlueRoom a powerful tool for organisations seeking to improve readiness while maintaining flexibility and control over delivery.

A strong alignment between BlueRoom and MKC Training

For BlueRoom, the collaboration strengthens delivery in the UK while also deepening engagement and cooperation across allied nations.

Ben Krynski, CEO of BlueRoom Simulations, said:

“MKC Training combines deep specialist training expertise with a strong understanding of where defence training is heading, which is why we’re thrilled to launch our exclusive UK partnership and support the next generation of medical and casualty care training. Together, we’re enabling organisations to adopt mixed reality in a way that delivers measurable capability and operational confidence.”

The partnership between BlueRoom Simulations and MKC Training is underpinned by a strong alignment in vision.

As Michael Johnson, Growth & Innovation Director at MKC Training, said at the launch:

“This partnership aligns perfectly with our focus on impactful training that stands up to real-world demands and ensures operational readiness. BlueRoom’s mixed reality capability gives organisations a powerful way to rehearse complexity, safely and at pace.”

Together, these perspectives capture the broader significance of the launch: this is not only a commercial partnership, but a practical step toward helping organisations train more effectively for the environments they are most likely to face.

Bringing a mature capability back to the UK

For BlueRoom, the UK launch also has a deeper significance. It represents the return of a capability with origins in the UK back through the work from Prof Bob Stone and his team at the University of Birmingham and the Royal Centre of Defence Medicine into the UK market as a mature, commercialised, and globally proven system.

This is important for the UK simulation community. Many organisations are interested in immersive training technologies, but are looking for solutions that go beyond novelty and are ready for practical implementation. They need systems that are robust, supportable, and capable of delivering meaningful outcomes.

BlueRoom’s arrival in Chatham answers that need with a platform that has already been developed, tested, and refined through international deployment and customer engagement. The result is a capability that is not experimental, but ready to support real users, real scenarios, and real training requirements.

Supporting the next generation of training

The launch of BlueRoom in the UK opens new opportunities for collaboration across defence, healthcare, emergency response, and education. It provides a local platform for demonstrations, customer trials, capability development, and ongoing engagement with organisations seeking new approaches to immersive learning and operational preparation.

For the UK simulation community, this is a significant step forward. A world-leading mixed reality capability is now permanently available in the region through MKC Training, creating new opportunities to improve preparedness, accelerate learning, and deliver training that better reflects the realities of modern operational environments.

BlueRoom Simulations is proud to launch in the United Kingdom with MKC Training and looks forward to supporting customers and partners across the UK, Ireland, and the Falkland Islands in the years ahead.

Interested in seeing BlueRoom in action?

Organisations in the UK interested in learning more about BlueRoom, arranging a demonstration, or exploring hands-on use of the system can contact MKC Training’s Defence Medical Lead, Keith Mills, at defencegrowth@mkctraining.com.