TECH NEWS – A Brazilian doctor has used Apple’s AR headset in surgery and believes the Apple Vision Pro, which will soon be available in Europe, could bring huge changes to the industry.

The headset, which was unveiled at WWDC, made its way to the US for launch in early February, and is slowly starting to show how useful the device can be in the real world. Now we hear that an orthopedic surgeon used Apple Vision Pro to successfully operate on his patient’s shoulder. In doing so, Bruno Gobbato proved that the medical applications of the Cupertino company’s device should not be neglected.

“In shoulder arthroscopy, a camera is placed inside the joint and the surgeon performs the operation by looking directly at a screen. With this device, I was able to see the image on the size of a movie screen with high resolution, as well as see the patient’s exams and 3D models in real time,” MacMagazine quoted Gobbato as saying He needed to operate on a torn rotator cuff. The tear was caused by excessive wear and tear of the tendon tissue in the shoulder.

In a video uploaded to YouTube, Gobbato shows how he was able to see notes, X-rays or live cameras during the surgery using the AR headset. He’s no stranger to the subject, having previously used Microsoft’s HoloLens product, so he knows how cumbersome it is to wear a headset in the operating room, but now that he’s had a successful surgery, the Apple Vision Pro has taken the place of a lot of equipment.

For this reason, it is not surprising that doctors consider the possibilities offered by Apple’s headset as a game-changer, so that not only in everyday tasks or media consumption can Apple Vision Pro be used successfully, of which a cheaper version will surely be produced later, because in the United States the company is asking for $3500 for the basic model, and when the European version is announced in June (due to the integration of languages, everything is ready to go for that), Apple will probably charge at least €3500.

Source: WCCFTech, MacMagazine