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Oliver Haslam

Apple Vision Pro used during spinal operation as surgeon hails headset's ability to 'superpower' surgical teams

The Apple Vision Pro on a white table.

The Apple Vision Pro has now been on sale for more than a month now, but only for those who are in the United States. So it's perhaps all the more interesting that the first report of Apple's mixed reality headset being used in the operating theater is in not in its home country, but across the Atlantic.

A team at the private Cromwell Hospital in London reportedly used an Apple Vision Pro to help keep track of things during surgery when repairing a man's spine. The headset, which is expected to go on sale in the UK within months if previous rumors turn out to be true, wasn't worn by the surgeon himself but rather a scrub nurse who worked alongside him. It's reported that the headset was used to allow them to track the procedure as it unfolded and to know which tools to choose at the right time.

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