An apparatus for laparoscopic surgical training , comprising: a physical simulator unit ; a physical tissue model ; and a computing and display unit ; wherein the physical simulator unit comprises at least one side wall and a removable internal base plate ; wherein the side wall comprises: a central opening through which a camera is arranged to view the removable internal base plate ; and two or more laparoscopic surgical tools entry openings ; wherein the internal base plate is arranged to hold the physical tissue model in the camera's field of view and in a position accessible to laparoscopic surgical tools when inserted in the two or more laparoscopic surgical tools entry openings ; wherein the computing and display unit is arranged to acquire video data from the camera and signal data from the physical tissue model , and to then utilise the video and signal data to generate and display in real-time a customised mixed reality or augmented video; characterised in that the physical tissue model comprises tissue mimicking material embedded with internal wiring and sensors arranged to be connected to electronic circuitry, which is further connected to the computing and display unit ; wherein the video data acquired by the camera is augmented in real-time and displayed in the computing and display unit to simulate the video feed of a real laparoscopic surgery; and wherein physical manipulation of the internal wiring and sensors in the physical tissue model by the laparoscopic surgical tools is acquired as signal data, which signal data is then used to generate in real-time a customised video augmentation to the video feed acquired by the camera , and a merged video is displayed in the computing and display unit. a physical simulator unit ; a physical tissue model ; and a computing and display unit ; wherein the physical simulator unit comprises at least one side wall and a removable internal base plate ; wherein the side wall comprises: a central opening through which a camera is arranged to view the removable internal base plate ; and two or more laparoscopic surgical tools entry openings ; wherein the internal base plate is arranged to hold the physical tissue model in the camera's field of view and in a position accessible to laparoscopic surgical tools when inserted in the two or more laparoscopic surgical tools entry openings ; wherein the computing and display unit is arranged to acquire video data from the camera and signal data from the physical tissue model , and to then utilise the video and signal data to generate and display in real-time a customised mixed reality or augmented video; characterised in that the physical tissue model comprises tissue mimicking material embedded with internal wiring and sensors arranged to be connected to electronic circuitry, which is further connected to the computing and display unit ; wherein the video data acquired by the camera is augmented in real-time and displayed in the computing and display unit to simulate the video feed of a real laparoscopic surgery; and wherein physical manipulation of the internal wiring and sensors in the physical tissue model by the laparoscopic surgical tools is acquired as signal data, which signal data is then used to generate in real-time a customised video augmentation to the video feed acquired by the camera , and a merged video is displayed in the computing and display unit. <EOS>