The setup features a JVC GD-46310E 3D monitor for displaying surgical procedures in real-time 3D with images piped from a 3D operating microscope. The JVC panel was selected for its flicker and lag-free 3D pictures, courtesy of its inexpensive polarised goggles and integrated Xpol polarising filter. The passive 3D glasses also do not require batteries, which further reduces equipment failure, critical in emergency and hospital usage.

“We’re working to build a system which can model a real surgical field in real-time 3D and then allow virtual surgery to be performed on that virtual surgical field. Surgeons will be able to perform a ‘practice operation’ before they cut anything on a patient,” explained David Kaplan, managing director of D’Ambra Technologies.