Someone finally found a use for a gaggle of new technologies, including Apple's Vision Pro, AI, and augmented reality.
Surgery.
Surgeons in the United Kingdom used a new program that interweaves the three technologies and turned a novice scrub nurse into a seasoned professional.
Using augmented reality, the device showed the scrub nurse how to prepare and which tools to hand to the surgeon.
Suvi Verho, lead scrub nurse at London Independent Hospital, said the technology was a 'gamechanger,' adding: 'It eliminates human error. It eliminates the guesswork.'
'It gives you confidence in surgery.'
I'm not sure if this is the surgery in question, but regardless, it gives you a view of what this looks like:
The onboard AI also documented the entire procedure, and will add and compare it to future operations to aid in creating new predictive aids in future procedures.
The Surgeon Syed Aftab said the software had the power to turn a scrub nurse he had never worked with - which is a regular occurrence - into someone with ten years' experience.
He added that the technology would 'superpower' his operating team into the equivalent of a Formula One pit crew, saying: 'That's the idea - that it doesn't matter if you've never been in a pitstop in your life. You just put the headset on.'
Hopefully, they'll keep it away from the crazy AIs out there like, MIT's Norman.
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