Multimodality in VR: A survey

TL;DR

This survey reviews how multimodal sensory integration enhances user experience and performance in virtual reality across various applications and disciplines.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of multimodality in VR, highlighting its role, benefits, and applications across multiple fields.

Findings

Multimodality improves VR user experience.

Enhances performance and skill transfer in VR.

Supports diverse applications across disciplines.

Abstract

Virtual reality (VR) is rapidly growing, with the potential to change the way we create and consume content. In VR, users integrate multimodal sensory information they receive, to create a unified perception of the virtual world. In this survey, we review the body of work addressing multimodality in VR, and its role and benefits in user experience, together with different applications that leverage multimodality in many disciplines. These works thus encompass several fields of research, and demonstrate that multimodality plays a fundamental role in VR; enhancing the experience, improving overall performance, and yielding unprecedented abilities in skill and knowledge transfer.