The Future of Surgery: How AR and VR Will Upend Modern Medicine

Technology is reshaping every aspect of our lives. Once a week in The Future Of, we examine innovations in important fields, from farming to transportation, and what they will mean in the years and decades to come. The case was complicated: Shoulder arthroplasty, to deal with an advanced case of arthritis affecting the patient's glenoid -- the ball part of the ball-and-socket joint in the shoulder. To handle the case most effectively, the surgeon wanted assistance from the best. But the best was physically half a world away.