Why augmented reality headsets could soon find a home in the operating theatre
Scalpel. Retractor. Sutures. The equipment that surgeons use hasn’t changed significantly for many decades. However, if one trial is anything to go by, clinicians could soon be taking augmented-reality glasses into the operating theatre. Interventional cardiologist Dr Maksymilian Opolski, of the Warsaw Institute of Cardiology, first tested out virtual reality glasses for a heart procedure known as a PCI back in 2015, where he navigated the inside of the patient’s heart using pictures projected onto the heads-up display. A PCI, short for ‘percutaneous coronary intervention’, is a common procedure performed on people that whose coronary arteries — the large blood vessels that provide blood to the heart — have started to close up. ….[READ]
LAVREB Laboratory of Virtual Reality and Economic Behavior 