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November 20, 2014

Financial planning gets a dose of virtual reality

  • Fidelity wants to connect with younger people who grew up playing video games — not studying investments.
    • By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
    AP Technology Writer

    SAN FRANCISCO — Financial planning often involves lots of spreadsheets, pie charts and eyes glazing over.

    Fidelity Investments aims to change that equation with an experiment in 3-D technology designed to make money management seem more like a mesmerizing video game than mundane number crunching. Welcome to “StockCity,” a virtual-reality landscape dotted with skyscrapers representing the stocks in a person's investment portfolio. A Web version is being released Wednesday at http://www.fidelitylabs.com , but StockCity ultimately is meant to be viewed on the Oculus Rift, a virtual-reality headset that still hasn't been released on the mass market.


     
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