Merits of Scientific Visualization Using Virtual Reality Technology

― Through a Variety of Studies ―

Abstract

In recent years, virtual reality (VR) technology has been rapidly spreading, due mainly to commodity VR hardware devices. Naturally, VR-based scientific visualization is also becoming more easily available than ever. However, it is still unknown how and how much such visualization is advantageous over conventional non-VR visualization. In this article, merits of scientific visualization using VR technology are discussed, by introducing a variety of studies in the literature.