Video-based education is an established component of the modern surgical educational paradigm. 1 Despite significant academic progress and innovation in laparoscopic and endoscopic video-based education, there has been relatively little development for open surgical techniques. 2 Since the emergence of commercially available small form factor "action cameras" (e.g. GoPro), numerous surgical fields have reported on the development of inexpensive head-mounted camera systems to produce educational content, which offer significant advantages for the capture of open surgery. 3 Stereoscopic video capture requires a multiple camera system and specialized video processing but allows the viewer to have substantially improved depth perception, and when viewed using a virtual reality headset, creates an embodied learning experience that is highly immersive and engaging to the viewer and may provide an even more powerful educational intervention compared to conventional video. 4 In this video abstract, we describe the development of a novel, head-mounted, gimbal-stabilized stereoscopic camera setup to optimize open surgical video capture, and report on the content creation and post-production pipeline required to easily capture and process this new video format. We demonstrate our technology using a first-in-human trial of our setup to capture a stereoscopic first-person perspective of an attending surgeon guiding a resident surgical trainee through an open ventral hernia repair with mesh placement, and present our results using both immersive virtual reality and conventional video formats.