Two Asian hospitals are using Vuzix smart glasses to provide instructions for surgeons.

Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan and First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University in China used Vuzix M400 smart glasses during live surgeries.

New York-based Vuzix supplies smart glasses and augmented reality (AR) technology and products. The two hospitals recently hosted live broadcasts of surgeries using Vuzix M400 smart glasses.

Traditional live broadcasts of surgeries often face issues such as obstructed camera angles, cramped surgical spaces, and specific sterile areas that restrict camera positioning and real-time adjustments. Additionally, surgical lights can cause overexposure, and the operating room’s internet limitations frequently compromise video quality.

The broadcast experience at Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital was improved through the implementation of Vuzix smart glasses and a premium medical streaming platform FacePro Telemedicine developed by Softfoundry (www.softfoundry.com). The combined use of these products delivered the surgeon’s first-person perspective in a 4K high-definition live broadcast of knee joint surgery, allowing for both real-time recording and the sharing of the operations to conference room audiences.

The operations themselves showed knee replacement techniques using United Orthopedic (www.unitedorthopedic.com) instruments and products, as well as provided enhanced surgical outcomes and improved educational experiences. A case study of the broadcasted surgeries performed at this hospital can be found at vuzix.com/casestudy-taiwan-hospital.

At the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Vuzix and its distributor Arbigtec collaborated closely with medical technology provider VIS to conduct a webinar featuring live remote cardiac surgery (www.youtube.com/live/_uRk38RIkUc). The webinar demonstrated and taught activities using Vuzix smart glasses. Cardiac surgeons at the hospital presented remote surgery demonstrations with the goals of improving teaching results, reducing costs, enriching content, promoting learning and communication between medical personnel, and strengthening regional collaboration.

The VIS platform was created by a team of doctors and developed by healthcare experts. It addresses clinical requirements and offers interconnected audio and video for hospitals. Currently, the VIS system is operational in over 200 major and local hospitals in China, and over 4000 live surgeries have been performed using the platform. This has provided expertise in integrating the platform with Vuzix glasses. The platform also features integration with hospital patient data and video systems.

“The use of Vuzix smart glasses within healthcare is becoming a steadily expanding dynamic as more and more hospitals, doctors, providers and agencies discover and embrace the improved experiences and outcomes that can be achieved with a hands-free, lightweight, all-day wearable device such as our M400,” said Paul Travers, president of Vuzix.

Vuzix (www.vuzix.com) is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of smart glasses and AR technologies and products for the enterprise, medical, defence and consumer markets. The company’s products include head-mounted smart personal display and wearable computing devices that offer users a portable high-quality viewing experience, provide options for mobility, wearable displays and AR, as well OEM waveguide optical components and display engines. Vuzix holds more than 375 patents and patents pending and numerous IP licences in the fields of optics, head-mounted displays and AR video eyewear.

Founded in 1997, Vuzix is a public company with offices in: Rochester, New York; Munich, Germany; and Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan.