Abstract
Within the scope of this publication, we present a design prototype for the 3D visualization of financial data of Australia’s Energy sector with a large scale immersive virtual reality environment. We review existing 3D visualization approaches in finance industry; discuss the technical setup of the prototype; explore design considerations; and approaches to make financial information understandable for everyone. We conclude with a discussion about the potential that immersive virtual environments provide to support the understanding of market events, as well as the exploration of large multidimensional data-sets.
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Available from: https://www.aemo.com.au/.
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Data is available in 5-min intervals for the National Electricity Market and 30-min intervals for the South West Interconnected System.
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We would like to thank the Curtin HIVE and its team (namely Andrew Woods) [31], for help in creating the project prototype. We also would like to thank the Curtin Institute for Computation (CIC) for the financial grant which supported the project development. The project was conducted as part of the 2017/2018 HIVE summer internship scheme [32].
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Lugmayr, A., Lim, Y.J., Hollick, J., Khuu, J., Chan, F. (2019). Financial Data Visualization in 3D on Immersive Virtual Reality Displays. In: Mehandjiev, N., Saadouni, B. (eds) Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry. FinanceCom 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 345. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19037-8_8
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