Although the benefits of LC are well described (e.g. decreased post-operative pain, decreased need for post-operative analgesia, shortened hospital stay and earlier return to full activity),3,4 it is not completely risk-free. The surgeon's experience, or rather the lack of, has been previously identified as one of the significant correlations to inadvertent visceral injury.5 According to the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery, a minimum of 20 LCs are necessary before a surgeon is deemed able to perform it safely.6 This is consistent with the concept of the learning curve as analysed by Moore and Bennett; they noted that 90% of iatrogenic bile duct injuries occurred within the first 30 cases of the operating surgeon's experience.7 Publications on LC learning curve have identified the risk of an iatrogenic bile duct injury as 0.17% - 0.35% after a surgeon's 50th case as opposed to 1.3 - 1.7% when fewer than 50 cases.7,8 These higher risks of iatrogenic injuries have been attributed to the major setbacks encountered during conventional laparoscopic surgery, chiefly the lack of depth perception and tactile sensory feedback to the operating surgeon thus risking inadvertent injury to surrounding structures and imprecise dissection within the Calot's triangle. While the importance of senior supervision and guidance are indispensible, the technical short-comings of conventional laparoscopic surgery, i.e. the lack of depth perception, have led to the development of technology to allow for 3-dimensional (3D) visualisation.