Magic Leap 2 Gains Certification so Doctors Can Use AR During Surgery - Road to VR

Magic Leap, the storied unicorn processing endeavor AR headsets, announced astatine CES 2023 that its flagship instrumentality Magic Leap 2 earned a certification that clears it for usage successful the operating room.

The institution archetypal intimated it had pursued IEC 60601-1 certification at SPIE’s XR league successful January 2022, nevertheless the quality mostly went unreported since the accusation was presented in a azygous descent astatine the conference.

At AMD’s CES 2023 keynote, Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson confirmed Magic Leap 2 has so obtained IEC 60601-1 certification for its flagship AR headset.

As explained by TÜV Rheinland, the IEC 60601-1 certification specifies a instrumentality that is “intended to diagnose, treat, oregon show a diligent nether aesculapian supervision and, which makes carnal oregon electrical interaction with the diligent and/or transfers vigor to oregon from the diligent and/or detects specified an vigor transportation to oregon from the patient.”

Magic Leap says this certification allows Magic Leap 2 to beryllium utilized some successful an operating country arsenic good arsenic successful different objective settings, allowing aesculapian professionals specified arsenic surgeons to absorption connected the diligent and not person to notation to 2D screens.

By and large, this gives bundle developers a non-inconsequential inroad into gaining FDA certification for apps that could beryllium utilized during surgery, and not conscionable for pre-surgical training.

One specified Magic Leap partner, SentiAR, is currently under reappraisal by the FDA for its app which connects physicians to unrecorded objective information and images, allowing them bash operations specified arsenic navigating a catheter done humor vessels of the bosom utilizing a 3D representation of a patient’s bosom and the determination of the catheter successful existent time.

Founded successful 2010, the Plantation, Florida-based institution initially exited the gross with user ambitions for its archetypal AR headset, Magic Leap 1 (previously styled ‘One’). After awkwardly straddling the conception with its $2,300 AR headset, the institution made a decisive pivot successful mid-2020 erstwhile CEO and co-founder Rony Abovitz announced helium would be stepping down arsenic CEO, positioning the institution to reprioritize its aboriginal devices distant from consumers. It has since released Magic Leap 2, which is mostly targeted astatine enterprise.

The well-funded company, which has amassed $4 cardinal successful beingness funds to date, has precocious taken connected $450 cardinal from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealthiness fund, giving the state a bulk stock successful the US-based augmented world company.