Surgeons on opposite sides of the world operate on patient using VR

Three surgeons from London and Mumbai have used virtual and augmented reality technology to operate together on a patient at The Royal London Hospital.

The surgeons wore Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets to virtually appear live in the same hospital where the patient was being operated on.

Professor Shafi Ahmed, a colorectal surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust was joined virtually by professor Shailesh Shrikhande, a cancer surgeon at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai and Hitesh Patel a consultant colorectal surgeon at BMI the London Independent Hospital.
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