Multimodality in VR: A survey
This is an incremental survey that synthesizes knowledge for researchers and practitioners in VR and related fields.
The survey reviews existing research on multimodality in VR, highlighting its role in enhancing user experience, improving performance, and enabling skill and knowledge transfer across various disciplines.
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.