I spend about 30 minutes at the Nirvana booth trying to figure out what Visual Trader really was about.
See
http://www.visualtrader.com/ for a few screenshots and animations.
All in all I was terribly disappointed. I did not see anything new or interesting. Maybe the guy demonstrating could have been better, but he certainly failed to impress me.
Premise: VisualTrader (vt) is supposed to graph sectors and their respective stocks in 3D and indicate breakouts visually. The idea is that the landscape of 3D cylinders would allow you to see which sectors were moving, and which stocks within a sector was the strongest/weakest.
It was saturday afternoon, so they ran in "playback" mode. They had set the sample interval to 5 minutes, so the cylinders were basically just jumping up and down. It looked like chaos to me.
Things that may have affected the demo:
1. The 5 min sampling interval for playback
2. The guy giving the demo didn't seem to know the product
3. The guy giving the demo spent quite a bit of time showing it on the ES (emini). I failed to understand why it was interesting to see one cylinder jump up and down; but maybe i missed something.
4. I could not see any reason why the 3D representation was clearer than a table with the same data. It takes up more room, and it's more difficult to navigate.
5. The demo-guy didn't seem to really understand sectors and sector trading.
I'm sorry, but that's about all I got out of it.