Conjoined twins separated with the help of virtual reality

[drakulton]

Three-year-olds Bernardo and Arthur Lima underwent surgeries in Rio de Janeiro, with direction from Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.
The teams spent months trialling techniques using virtual reality projections of the twins, based on CT and MRI scans.
It was described by surgeon Noor ul Owase Jeelani as "space-age stuff".
He said that, for the first time, surgeons in separate countries wore headsets and operated in the same "virtual reality room" together.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-62378452

 

[Tykey]

wonder what headset they used?

 

[melmac]

Definitely not the Vive or Oculus Civ1. Imagine trying to operate through all that SDE!!

 

[goldy6660]

Pretty amazing tho. Surgery pretty much available anywhere in the world now meaning that almost all barriers for complex stuff is removed....apart from finding a sodding holo deck

 

[picnic]

The actual operation was done in person, it was the planning etc. where they used the VR.