According to Mullins, the first doctor's lack of information regarding the relatively new surgical procedure as an option was partly due to the fact that "knowledge is not flowing." And that, says Mullins, who stepped down from his CEO role late last year, is what led to his initial passion for augmented reality.
"I made it my mission so that no one has to through that, and I thought: How could augmented reality start address this problem? What would it look like?" said Mullins.
"Now we can argue: Could augmented reality make the best surgeon better? I would say: yes. The data clearly says that it could … all we have to do is get the knowledge flowing in augmented reality, then we can make a general practitioner or a Good Samaritan anywhere in the world a surgeon when they need to be. And it's not just about surgery, it's about anything you can learn."