The future of Apple Vision Pro is in medicine

Apple's 3,500 Vision Pro sounds like a bargain compared to the price of a fresh, medical-grade cadaver. And some medical institutions have started practicing surgery using the spatial-computing headset, which doesn't require a physical human body. Replacing cadavers is just one example of how the Vision Pro has made its way into the medical field since it hit the market in February 2024. On January 30-31, 2025, Sharp Healthcare hosted the inaugural Spatial Computing Health Care Summit, where medical providers gathered to discuss their use of spatial computing, which embeds digital objects into a live feed of the real world. The same tech that allows people to play virtual Battleship with each other has moved into applications that include everything from training and education to full-fledged operations on human patients.