Collaboration and Preparation: What Mixed Reality Surgery Affords the Operating Room

Mixed reality and image-guided technologies now offer surgeons new preoperative planning tools, and a means to collaborate and share expertise across the globe.
A recent 24-hour surgery event facilitated by Microsoft featured 12 holographic surgeries, along with roundtables and live interviews on the topic. A dozen doctors from around the world performed multiple surgeries, including a shoulder replacement in South Africa and a knee procedure in the United Arab Emirates.
The surgeons demonstrated how mixed reality solutions enable them to collaborate across borders, access data, and improve…