Doctors used Google Cardboard to perform heart surgery on a baby

A four-month-old baby born with one lung and a defective heart has celebrated her first Christmas with her family, thanks to a life-saving surgery made possible with Google Cardboard, the tech giant's cheap virtual-reality headset. Teegan Lexcen's condition was deemed inoperable. Doctors were previously too afraid to press ahead with surgery as standard 2D images didn't provide enough detail of the state of her heart. That's when doctors from Nicklaus Children's Hospital turned to Google Cardboard, which costs about $20 and works with any smartphone. They were able to convert 2D MRI scans of Teegan's heart into a 3D model, upload it onto an iPhone, and view it through Google's simple VR headset.