Built by a surgeon, for surgeons. TheatreKit connects live operating theatres to remote mentors, trainees and classrooms in real time — telementoring, proctoring and teaching with two-way audio, multi-theatre switching and built-in recording. All on low-cost, off-the-shelf hardware.
Built on modern WebRTC, TheatreKit delivers video in under 100 milliseconds from camera to audience — not the several-second lag of traditional streaming platforms. It's a complete broadcasting system, not just a video call.
Real-time WebRTC streaming means the audience sees what the surgeon sees, as it happens. Questions and answers flow naturally — no awkward delays.
Run several theatres at once and switch the live feed from a single operator dashboard — or show all theatres side by side in a multiscreen view.
The audience or remote expert can speak directly into the theatre, and the theatre talks back — with mix-minus audio so nobody hears an echo.
In-theatre monitors, conference displays, and remote guests in a normal web browser — no apps to install, no plugins, no specialist viewing kit.
Robotic consoles see in stereoscopic 3D — and TheatreKit transmits it. Remote viewers wearing 3D glasses such as the XReal One or Viture Luma Pro get the same depth perception as the operating surgeon.
4K needs four times the bandwidth for detail that's lost on projector screens and remote links — and most surgical stacks output 1080p natively. TheatreKit spends that bandwidth on a rock-steady, low-latency 60 fps picture that never buffers.
Self-hosted and encrypted end to end over the wire. Your footage stays on your own infrastructure — nothing is routed through third-party clouds.
Built on open standards (WebRTC, OBS, LiveKit). Add cameras, theatres, overlays and picture-in-picture composites as your programme grows.
TheatreKit was created inside a working surgical unit to make live operating accessible to more learners, more often — without disrupting the theatre team.
An expert mentor anywhere in the world joins the theatre from a browser — watching the operative view live and talking to the team in real time. Ideal for introducing new techniques and supporting surgeons through their early independent cases, without anyone leaving their own hospital.
A consultant can oversee a trainee's case from the next theatre, the office or home — stepping in with guidance the moment it's needed. More supervised operating for trainees, more flexibility for supervisors, better use of every list.
Medical students and theatre staff watch live cases from a seminar room instead of crowding the operating theatre. Big scope for education: one operation can teach a whole cohort — and the recording teaches the next.
Stream multiple operating theatres into a conference auditorium with an operator switching between cases. Delegates watch in full HD and put their questions straight to the operating surgeon — a genuine live-surgery masterclass, without busing an audience into theatre.
Every live case can become a lasting teaching asset. TheatreKit captures the full session — video and theatre audio — ready to revisit and share.
Capture every theatre's feed automatically, with synchronised audio from the room and remote participants. No extra recording crew, no camcorders — it's built into the pipeline.
Replay cases for debriefs, morbidity & mortality meetings, and structured feedback. Trainees can study their own operating; teams can analyse technique step by step.
Curate the best cases into an indexed video library for your department, training programme or society — turning one afternoon of operating into a permanent educational resource.
From a TheatreKit recording — the live instrument feed beside the theatre camera and the case details panel, with conference branding. Exactly what the auditorium, remote proctor and recording all see.
Traditional theatre AV integrations cost tens of thousands per room. TheatreKit runs on compact, affordable, off-the-shelf hardware — installed without rewiring the theatre.
Every part of TheatreKit — encoder boxes, cameras, server, displays — is an independent module speaking open standards. Upgrades are drop-in: a sharper camera, a more capable encoder box or a bigger server slots straight in, one piece at a time, without touching the rest. No rip-and-replace, no redesign, no five-figure AV re-integration — the system grows with you.
Patient footage demands more than a password. TheatreKit is built as a closed system on open standards — private infrastructure end to end, with nothing proprietary on the viewing side.
Theatres, servers and conference venues are linked over an encrypted site-to-site VPN. Media flows across your own closed network — never through a public streaming service or third-party cloud.
Every stream is encrypted in transit with the same DTLS-SRTP security model that protects telemedicine and banking-grade WebRTC — encryption is mandatory in the protocol, not an optional extra.
Viewers and remote guests join with scoped, short-lived access tokens issued per role — a guest can only ever see and hear what their role allows. External access is limited to guest pages only.
The whole platform — switching, routing, recordings and the video library — runs on hardware you control, inside your governance boundary. No vendor lock-in, no data leaving your estate.
Built entirely on W3C and IETF standards: WebRTC for transport, H.264/H.265 and Opus for media, plain HTML5 for every screen. No proprietary protocols, no black boxes.
Because it's standards-based, any modern browser is a fully fledged viewing station — Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox on any device. Nothing to install, nothing to maintain on the viewer's side.
Planning a telementoring link, a training programme, or a live-surgery conference? We'd love to talk about what TheatreKit can do for you.
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