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Stryker runs its first hip arthroscopy through an Apple Vision Pro

A gowned surgeon wearing a head-mounted display operates on a draped patient, with floating panels beside them showing a hip CT slice and a live arthroscopic camera view.

Stryker / SportSuite Vision product pagePress kit

Stryker announced on 1 September 2026 that SportSuite Vision, an application for Apple Vision Pro, has been used in a live hip arthroscopy. The FDA granted the application De Novo authorization on 17 July 2026, and Stryker describes it as the first application cleared for intraoperative use with the headset.

The procedure, for femoroacetabular impingement with labral repair, was performed by Chad Mather III at Duke Health. Stryker did not state the date of the operation. The application places arthroscopic video, CT imaging and the company’s HipCheck and HipMap planning data into a spatial computing environment, which reduces the surgeon’s reliance on the separate monitors positioned around an operating room. Mather said the arrangement let him put clinical information where his workflow wanted it and reach it inside the sterile field.

The augmented party here is the surgeon, not the patient, and that is the interesting part. Most of this beat concerns devices that restore a capability someone has lost. This is a regulator authorizing a consumer headset as the display surface for an operation, which makes the sterile field a place where a general-purpose wearable computer is now allowed to work.

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  1. [1]Stryker introduces first of its kind FDA-authorized surgical application for Apple Vision Pro with hip arthroscopy case at nationally recognized academic medical centerStryker··Press release