New technology launched to provide more options for surgery visualisation – Med-Tech Innovation | Latest news for the medical device industry

Ocutrx Vision Technologies is launching new technology with its AR/XR glasses that provide a surgical viewing experience for retinal surgeons and patients, in a bid to provide more options for surgery visualisation and to remove “pain” for surgeons to improve surgeries.

The Ocutrx OR-Bot Surgery Visualisation Theatre was unveiled at the annual meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS).

Dr Thomas Finley, head of the Ocutrx Medial Advisory Board, said: “It’s an exciting day for our company as we move into the full surgery visualisation theatre. Surgeons have been hindered by equipment that is not ergonomically sound. The resulting discomfort is not only bad during the surgery, but potentially the next day, and can result in an unexpected early retirement. With our new OR-Bots, we will be able to offer surgeons a comfortable, lightweight and ergonomically sound solution to better perform some of the most exacting procedures in modern medicine.”

The company says OR-Bot’s system offers three unique visualisation options depending on the surgeon’s preference: the ORLenz augmented reality surgery headset featuring: a surgery view with augmented virtual patient and operating tool information; the choice of using an autostereoscopic “3D glasses-free” 3D 8K display monitor positioned directly in front of the surgeon; or viewing the surgery through a microscope-like VR viewing station positioned on one of the OR-Bot’s robotic arms.

Each of these surgery visualisation choices provide a 4K resolution to the surgeon’s eyes. The OR-Bot’s arms are both human and robotic controlled so doctors will be able to move the device’s gravity compensated 6-axis arms with a slight touch while using voice commands or foot pedal to engage and position the VR microscope or cameras on the arms.

Michael H. Freeman, CEO/CTO of Ocutrx, said: “With our new cobotic OR-Bot. We’ll be able to offer surgeons several comfortable, lightweight and ergonomically sound solutions to better perform these delicate ophthalmic procedures with faster-surgery set-up and turn around.”

Dr Linda Lam, Ocutrx CMO, said: “The OR-Bot solves a number of space constraints facing surgeons currently by separating the camera from the standard optical microscope (SOM) and reducing the size of equipment in the operative field.”

The OR-Bot’s Lenticular Autostereoscopic 8K 3D “glasses-free” monitor allows surgeons, nurses, techs, and students to view surgery in the operating room along with the surgeon. With the OR-Bot’s 8K monitor surgeons will get a 4K 3D resolution per-eye without the use of 3D glasses. This technology works by lenses which display two sets of the same image – one to the left eye and one to the right eye – which the brain puts together and interprets as one 3D image.

Mitchael C. Freeman, COO of Ocutrx, said: “The ORLenz Surgery AR headset has the highest resolution the eye can see, being 60 pixels per degree at 20/20. The headset receives 4K feed from surgery cameras with less than 10-millisecond delay, which is as fast as an HDMI cable, to ensure the surgeon doesn’t lose any critical visual information. The ORLenz also touts the widest field of view (120 degrees), is the lightest weight on the market (250 grams), and is wireless, which will aid in creating more comfortable surgeries and allow the surgeon to change positions while the 3D hologram surgery image stays always directly in front of the surgeon’s eyes.”