Several companies have experimented with 3D in the operating room, and the field of laporascopic surgery seems a perfect fit: Inserting tiny cameras and probes into tiny holes to see things on screens, it seems a perfect fit to add back the important depth characteristics.  However, most of these systems to date have used bulky and low-resolution HMD’s.  Just recently, however, Viking Systems has received FDA clearance for their next generation-system which uses the Sony 3DHD flat planel and those same lightweight glasses that everyone is using these days.

It is purported for use in general surgery, urology, gynecology, spinal surgery, bariatric surgery, ENT and thoracic surgery. The system is scheduled for official launch at the American College of Surgeons’ Annual Clinical Congress which will be held from October 3-7. The company is working on getting the system CE approved as well.

via Viking Systems’ Next Generation 3DHD Visualization System.