Why Surgeons Are Wearing the Apple Vision Pro in Operating Rooms

Although this is only tangential, the untapped potential for AR (once the price comes down) in education is absolutely fantastic.

Everything from:

- overlaying explanations, diagrams, realtime simulated current flows onto circuit boards as you are looking at them

- appliance / home repair

- juggling/sleight of hand - its significantly easier to learn these kinds of skills from a human (or in this case a virtual human) so that your angle is the same instead of a video where its reversed

- artistry - place a model of something in the center of your living room, and sketch on a canvas from it as you walk around it

And these are just a few things I came up with based on my own personal hobbies. Everyone who worships at the proverbial alter of Apollo will likely have their own wishlist.

> Ghazi says that as these headsets are increasingly brought into operating rooms, it’s crucial for doctors to take precautions, especially around patient privacy. “Any device that is connected to a network or WiFi signal, has the potential to be exposed or hacked,

Never mind being hacked, what data is being sent to and collected by Apple? Why should I trust them? I'd be furious if I found out my doctor was using a product like this without my knowledge and consent. Even if you, for whatever reason, actually believe that Apple and every Apple employee or third party contractor who might ever have access to your data is 100% infallibly honest and incapable of error once VR headsets become common in the surgery other companies pushing that kind of tech will want in on the action including facebook and microsoft.

"allow a surgeon anywhere in the world to view an operating surgeon’s viewpoint and give them advice."

Have they shipped telepresence where the camera feed of one headset is live streamed to another? For getting expert advice remotely this does sound like a killer app (or should I say lifesaving?) , like having a voice in your head who is situated in the same viewpoint as you

The Microsoft HoloLens also supposedly had “business” applications, but was ultimately discontinued. The Apple Vision Pro was DOA, Apple just refuses to come to terms with that.

The Kinect was revolutionary and had interesting applications beyond consumer uses. Same with Hololens. Same with Google Glass. Same with 3D TVs. Same with others tech ahead of its time.

IMO, Apple's most successful approach is perfecting an already marketed product and turn it into a global phenomenon. As this article pointed out, the AVP (not aliens vs predator) has some advantages and definitely an improvement. But this first version is still not improved enough to reach mass appeal. Perhaps the next one?

VR is tech in search of a problem. The iPod and iPhone had clear applications and user frustration being solved. I’m still unconvinced VR will have mass market appeal.

Does Apple consider the Vision Pro a commercial flop?

i failed to understand from the article how avp is better than any other ar device for this purpose.

personally it is hard to tell what made the surgeons found groundbreaking about this device, as the ability to see another video feed would have been equally as easy on other platforms, if not easier.