There is no one inventor of virtual surgery and the technology has been developed over many years through the work of many surgeons, engineers, and computer scientists. Some of the key milestones include the development of computer-assisted surgery in the early 1990s and the first use of virtual reality in surgery in 1997. More recently, there has been a shift towards using mobile devices for virtual surgery, with apps like Surgery Simulator becoming increasingly popular and so it is really difficult to give credit to any single person, company, government or to the country