We survey the most recent results on extension of isometries between special subsets of the unit spheres of C * -algebras, von Neumann algebras, trace class operators, preduals of von Neumann algebras, and p-Schattenvon Neumann spaces, with special interest on Tingley's problem.Problem 1.1. Let X and Y be two Banach spaces whose unit spheres are denoted by S(X) and S(Y ), respectively. Let S 1 and S 2 be two subsets of S(X) and S(Y ), respectively. Suppose ∆ : S 1 → S 2 is a surjective isometry. Does ∆ extend to a real linear isometry from X onto Y ?Henceforth, we shall write T for the unit sphere of C. The complex conjugation on T cannot be extended to a complex linear isometry on C. So, in the case of complex Banach spaces, a complex linear extension is simply hopeless for all cases. Similar constrains will appear in subsequent results.These problems, whose origins are in geometry, are nowadays a central topic for those researchers working on preservers. If in Problem 1.1 we consider S 1 = S(X) and S 2