The Apple Vision Pro spatial computer has been put into use in a U.K. operating room by a surgical team. It served as a “surgical logistics and organization tool” using eXeX software during a pair of microsurgical spine procedures performed at Cromwell Hospital, the software’s developer, eXeX, announced Tuesday.
Aislinn Murphy for FOXBusiness:
“The Vision Pro was used in conjunction with eXeX – a dedicated AI backed software that focuses on streamlining the surgical episode, inventory management, equipment organization and the actual procedure at a very granular level. It has the surgical steps and equipment built into it in detail. This information is reviewed in a mixed reality environment before and during the surgical episode allowing for the scrub team to view the process and equipment in real time during the procedure and be guided by the visual overlays,” eXeX explained to FOX Business.
For the spinal procedures, the Vision Pro was used by a member of the scrub team on Cromwell Hospital’s complex spine team. One of the surgeons involved in the surgeries, Dr. Syed Aftab, said in a statement that it and the eXeX software “has improved efficiency” within the group.
“If regulators don’t get in the way, there will be increasing medical and health benefits like this one,” she told FOX Business. “This sort of technology improves health for patients and may drive down costs for providers. It’s a win-win.”
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With the upcoming launch of Apple Vision Pro, we are seeing strong excitement in Enterprise. Leading organizations across many industries such as Walmart, Nike, Vanguard, Stryker, Bloomberg, and SAP have started leveraging and investing in Apple Vision Pro as their new platform to bring innovative spatial computing experiences to their customers and employees. From everyday productivity to collaborative product design to immersive training, we cannot wait to see the amazing things our enterprise customers will create in the months and years to come. – Apple CFO Luca Maestri, February 1, 2024
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MDN’s comment is pretty pathetic. Thought you would congratulate the team using this amazing new technology.
Anyone else annoyed by the proliferation of the plural “surgeries”? It used to be “operations” and a singular field of “surgery”.
(No? Just me? Okay)
In an OR things have to be kept sanitary. The AVP will have to minimize the number of parts that will require disinfection for future models. Nice to haves may include visual zoom, and low light vision.