navigation systems, loupes, and screens, replacing surgical microscopes alone wouldn’t be a compelling enough goal for them though.

Their greater vision is to move medicine out of the past and into a future that fully leverages not only existing technologies, like AR/VR but one where medical innovation can move at the pace of software development in other industries. In order to realize that future, they have to move away from a dependency on ground glass, in the case of microscopes, and toward a focus on software and data, and leverage the emerging capabilities of computer vision and machine learning to enhance the combined performance of humans and computers.