Is Apple's new Vision Pro a health care machine?

Virtual reality has already made significant inroads into health care in areas like trauma therapy and surgery. The launch of Apple's Vision Pro headset could now accelerate this. — Photo: Christoph Dernbach/dpa

SAN DIEGO: Only just released to the public, Apple's new Vision Pro headset can already be used to display medical records, filling a doctor's field of view with anything from graphs of a patient's blood pressure over time to the results of their latest chest X-ray.

The expensive new technology, with its ultra high-resolution screens for each eye and multiple cameras for hand and eye tracking, brings a new level of precision to a realm that, up to this point, has mainly been the domain of video games.