In this niche case the Vision Pro seems like it has some compelling benefits.
I was expecting to see something more interesting. Looks like he basically just used it to float a monitor and Apple Notes over the patient. Which surgeons usually just do with a LCD display and a VESA mount arm on the ceiling.
I guess the cool thing is that you don’t need to touch a display. It’s all hands free and super sterile. That said, it’s not doing anything that you can’t do now for 1/4the the cost.
Maybe true, but even at $3500 the Vision Pro would be about the cheapest thing in the operating theater anyway.
Except that they only allow one account right now, and you’d need one for each surgeon.
And even purchasing for each surgeon is really not a big problem, you have disposable items that cost more sometimes.
You could simply have an OR account, could preload all scheduled notes and bobs your uncle, its also viable as a personal purchase.
Plus I would imagine a huge benefit is that you can use the UI for this without needing to physically touch anything that would get your hands contaminated or get the device dirty either. Pretty amazing stuff!
What would be really cool is if you can start to place virtual stereoscopic and volumetric displays over a patient. That way you were not just getting sterility, you were getting access to better visualization.
This use actually makes sense.
What are the HIPAA implications of that?
Hopefully it does processing totally offline