Virtual Environments Greatly Expand the Possibilities of Data Visualization

If you've ever made graphs and charts, you know it can be a struggle to represent a large amount of data. It's something that just doesn't work very well on a flat surface. In virtual and mixed reality, however, the data can exist all around you. In the above below, futurist Jim Reichert takes a look at a data visualization (that could just as well double as a creepy modern art sculpture) through the Microsoft HoloLens to demonstrate how much more we can see and understand when information isn't confined to a flat surface. Of course, his example is just that: a representative illustration of... more



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