ARTICLE SUMMARY:
Minimally invasive surgery requires doctors to continuously look at monitors, fixed somewhere in the OR, but the effort of maintaining this visual contact often imposes career-limiting physical strain on surgeons. HMDmd's wearable device gives surgeons high-resolution video with the added element of depth perception in a comfortable headset that can respond to voice commands and integrate real-time decision support data during surgery.
In the early 1990s, John Lyon and Allen Newman founded Vista Medical Technologies with the goal of creating a three-dimensional endoscopy system, as surgeons have historically had to rely on experience and skill to estimate depth during a procedure. They partnered with Kaiser Aerospace, a leading manufacturer of head-mounted displays for the Air Force, and leveraged their technology for complex reconstructive surgical applications because Kaiser was looking to diversify its portfolio.
