A team from Cromwell hospital in London, United Kingdom, used the Apple Vision Pro, Virtual reality glasses of the North American giant, to carry out a patient’s spine surgery while a nurse monitors the procedure in augmented reality.
The scrub nurse wore the glasses as she helped prepare, monitor the process, and choose the correct tools. The device allowed her to see the real world with virtual screens highlighting important information.
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The artificial intelligence software helps to make a note of each step of the operation, and makes a comparison with similar procedures performed by other surgeons. “This eliminates human error. It’s a transformative game changer,” Suvi Verho, lead scrub nurse at London’s Independent Hospital, told the Daily Mail.
One of the doctors present praised the system and said that the technology transformed an instrument nurse with whom he had never worked into someone with ten years of experience.
According to Apple, the Vision Pro will obey voice commands, eye movement and finger gestures. So users open apps simply by looking at them, tapping their fingers to select, swiping to scroll, or using a virtual keyboard to type.
When Apple introduced Vision Pro virtual reality glasses last year at a technology conference, many in the audience were stunned by the price: US$3,500 (about R$17,330). That’s more than quadruple the cost of a new iPhone and 14 times the cost of a competing headset from Meta.
