Apple Vision Pro used in surgery

SightMD said Dr. Eric Rosenberg became the first surgeon to perform cataract surgery using Apple Vision Pro, with the first case completed in October 2025. (prnewswire.com) (macrumors.com) Cataract surgery removes the eye’s clouded natural lens and replaces it with an artificial one, usually while the surgeon watches a microscope feed and checks pre-op measurements. Rosenberg’s setup put both into the headset instead of on separate room screens. (macrumors.com) (ophthalmologymanagement.com) The software is called ScopeXR, a mixed-reality platform Rosenberg co-developed for ophthalmic surgery. It streams live video from 3D digital surgical microscopes and overlays diagnostic data in the surgeon’s field of view. (prnewswire.com) (macrumors.com) SightMD said Rosenberg and his team have now performed hundreds of additional cases with the platform after that first October 2025 procedure. The company said the system lets surgeons keep sterile technique while viewing the operative field and patient data together. (prnewswire.com) (ophthalmologymanagement.com) The claim is notable because Apple has struggled to turn Vision Pro into a mass-market consumer device at its $3,500 launch price. Medical and industrial workflows have been one of the clearer enterprise cases for the headset. (appleinsider.com) (macrumors.com) Another ophthalmology study launched this month points the same way. Sharp HealthCare said its Spatial Computing Center of Excellence began an Institutional Review Board-approved clinical study of Apple Vision Pro in cataract microsurgery using an app called ClearSurgery. (appleworld.today) The reporting so far relies heavily on SightMD’s announcement, and no peer-reviewed clinical outcomes were included in the release. What is public today is the milestone claim, the October 2025 date, and the statement that the team has expanded to hundreds of cases. (prnewswire.com) (macrumors.com) For now, the headset is being described less as a replacement for the surgery itself than as a new way to arrange the surgeon’s view. In Rosenberg’s case, that meant bringing the microscope image and charts into one display worn on his face. (macrumors.com) (ophthalmologymanagement.com)