Magic Leap 2 Gains Certification so Doctors Can Use AR During Surgery
Magic Leap, the storied unicorn developing enterprise AR headsets, announced at CES 2023 that its flagship device Magic Leap 2 earned a certification that clears it for use in the operating room. The company first intimated it had pursued IEC 60601-1 certification at SPIE’s XR conference in January 2022, however the news largely went unreported […]

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6. Januar 2023
Rare Conjoined Twin Surgery Aided by VR Training, Bridging the Gap Between Two Continents
Practice makes perfect, especially when it comes to life-saving procedures that deal with extreme edge cases like separating conjoined twins. Now a UK-Brazilian team have done just that, which is thanks to detailed planning sessions which allowed the surgical team to model and rehearse the operation in VR from two different continents. As reported by BBC […]

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3. August 2022
Surgery Training Platform ‘Osso VR’ Secures $66M Series C Financing
Osso VR, the VR surgical training platform, today announced it’s closed a $66 million Series C financing round, something the company says will be used to broaden its VR surgical offering and hire more expert talent. The Series C round was led by Oak HC/FT, which includes participation from Signalfire, GSR Ventures, Tiger Global Management and […]

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24. März 2022
Activ Surgical harnesses AI and machine learning to collaborate with surgeons

With machine learning, Activ Surgical’s autonomous model can annotate a one-hour surgical video 20,000 times faster than humans can. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Poornima Apte

30. Oktober 2021
Osso VR Raises $27M Series B to Expand Its VR Surgical Training Platform
Osso VR, the creators behind the immersive surgical platform, today announced its secured $27 million in Series B financing. The funding round was led by GSR Ventures, with participation from Signalfire, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, OCA Ventures, Scrum Ventures, Leslie Ventures, and Anorak Ventures. According to Crunchbase, this brings the Silicon Valley-based company’s overall outside funding […]

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7. Juli 2021
Vicarious Surgical Aims to Raise $460M with $1.1B Valuation for VR Surgery Platform
Vicarious Surgical, a robotics-based medical company, today announced that it’s merging with D8 Holdings, a special purpose acquisition company. Vicarious Surgical is slated to go public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) where it is expected to garner up to $460 million, with an estimated $1.1 billion valuation. Founded in Massachusetts in 2014, Vicarious […]

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15. April 2021