Welcome to another edition of CEDARS/ASPENS Debates. CEDARS/ASPENS is a society of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery specialists, here to discuss some of the latest hot topics in ophthalmology.
The technology for three-dimensional heads-up surgery has been around for a while, but it has remained a niche procedure, embraced by a minority of surgeons. Like every other technology, 3D visualization systems were not perfect from the start. The main problem was latency, which may be only a fraction of a second but was a concern for many surgeons, in addition to a potentially inferior image