A challenge in surgical training is facilitating an attending surgeon’s visual feedback to residents conducting operations.

CrowdOptic‘s software lets one Google Glass wearer receive another’s point of view by looking in the other user’s direction. It is being used in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University Medical Center to improve resident training in complex surgical procedures.

Until now, the restricted view in the operating room has made it difficult for an attending surgeon to appreciate the perspective of the exact field of view of a trainee, complicating feedback process.