Subj : Apple's Vision Pro successfully helps nurse assist in spinal surg To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Wed Mar 13 2024 04:15:05 Apple's Vision Pro successfully helps nurse assist in spinal surgery and there's more mixed-reality medical work on the way Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 04:00:37 +0000 Description: A theater nurse used the headset to help prepare and keep track of an operation as it happened. FULL STORY ====================================================================== In a fascinating adoption of technology, a surgical team in the UK recently used Apples Vision Pro to help with a medical procedure. It wasnt a surgeon who donned the headset, but Suvi Verho, the lead scrub nurse (also known as a theater nurse) at the Cromwell Hospital in London. Scrub nurses help surgeons by providing them with all the equipment and support they need to complete an operation in this case, it was a spinal surgery. Verho told The Daily Mail that the Vision Pro used an app made by software developer eXeX to float superimposed virtual screens in front of [her displaying] vital information. The report adds that the mixed reality headset was used to help her prepare, keep track of the surgery, and choose which tools to hand to the surgeon. Theres even a photograph of the operation itself in the publication. (Image credit: Cromwell Hospital/The Daily Mail) Verho sounds like a big fan of the Vision Pro stating, perhaps somewhat hyperbolically, It eliminates human error [and] guesswork. Even so, anything that ensures operations go as smoothly as possible is A-OK in our books. Syed Aftab, the surgeon who led the procedure, also had several words of praise. He had never worked with Verho before. However, he said the headset turned an unfamiliar scrub nurse into someone with ten years experience working alongside him. Mixed reality support eXeX, as a company, specializes in upgrading hospitals by implementing mixed reality. This isnt the first time one of their products has been used in an operating room. Last month, American surgeon Dr. Robert Masson used the Vision Pro with eXeXs app to help him perform a spinal procedure. Again, it doesnt appear he physically wore the headset, although his assistants did. They used the device to follow procedural guides from inside a sterile environment, something that was previously deemed impossible. Dr. Masson had his own words of praise stating that the combination of the Vision Pro and the eXeX tool enabled an undistracted workflow for his team. Its unknown which software was used. However, if you check the companys website , it appears both Dr. Massons team and Nurse Verho utilized ExperienceX, a mixed reality app giving technicians a touch-free heads up display Apple's future in medicine The Vision Pros future in medicine wont just be for spinal surgeries. In a recent blog post , Apple highlighted several other medical apps harnessing visionOS Medical corporation Stryker created myMako to help doctors plan for their patients joint replacement surgeries. For medical students, Cinematic Reality by Siemens Healthineers offers interactive holograms of the human body. These two and more are available for download off the App Store, although some of the software requires a connection to the developers platform to work. You can download if you want to, but keep in mind they're primarily for medical professionals. If you're looking for a headset with a wider range of usability, check out TechRadar's list of the best VR headsets for 2024 . You might also like Could the Apple Vision Pro actually be useful for work? The best Apple Vision Pro work apps around Microsoft, Zoom, Webex, TeamViewer and more 5 big features that the Apple Vision Pro is strangely missing Apple Vision Pro is good for many things but drawing is not one of them ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality/apples-v ision-pro-successfully-helps-nurse-assist-in-spinal-surgery-and-theres-more-mi xed-reality-medical-work-on-the-way --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .