--- title: Augmedics xvision: The 100 Best Inventions of 2020 description: Find out why Augmedics xvision is one of the best inventions of 2020. canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2020/5911324/xvision/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-11-19T01:26:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-02T23:45:25.178Z og:title: Augmedics xvision: The 100 Best Inventions of 2020 og:description: Find out why Augmedics xvision made this year's list og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2020/5911324/xvision/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46e2e805262e27b9/698a144d929fad6ffebf6c53/best-inventions-of-2020-xvision-9.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Augmedics xvision: The 100 Best Inventions of 2020 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Augmedics xvision: The 100 Best Inventions of 2020 twitter:description: Find out why Augmedics xvision made this year's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46e2e805262e27b9/698a144d929fad6ffebf6c53/best-inventions-of-2020-xvision-9.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 19, 2020 # AR-Guided Surgery Augmedics xvision by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff  Courtesy It all started when [Augmedics](https://augmedics.com/) CEO Nissan Elimelech got a superhero-inspired idea: Wouldn’t it be cool if surgeons had X-ray vision? Several years of R&D produced the next best thing: xvision, a headset that uses augmented reality to turn a patient’s CT scan into a 3-D visualization that helps guide a spinal surgeon through operations in which every millimeter counts. The headset superimposes a 3-D image of a patient’s spine over their body, allowing surgeons to (almost) see what’s under the skin without ever looking away from the operating table. Cleared by the FDA in December 2019, the device is already in use at top U.S. hospitals like Johns Hopkins and Rush University Medical Center. _—Jamie Ducharme_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2020/5911324/xvision/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2020/5911324/xvision/"},"headline":"AR-Guided Surgery","datePublished":"2020-11-19T01:26:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:45:25.178Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2020/5911324/xvision/","keywords":["list","franchise","best inventions","Best Inventions 2020"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46e2e805262e27b9/698a144d929fad6ffebf6c53/best-inventions-of-2020-xvision-9.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46e2e805262e27b9/698a144d929fad6ffebf6c53/best-inventions-of-2020-xvision-9.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2020/5911324/xvision/","name":"AR-Guided Surgery"}}]}] ```