摘要：The integration of the auditory modality in virtual reality
environments is known to promote the sensations of
immersion and presence. However it is also known from
psychophysics studies that auditory-visual interaction
obey to complex rules and that multisensory conflicts
may disrupt the adhesion of the participant to the
presented virtual scene. It is thus important to measure the
accuracy of the auditory spatial cues reproduced by the
auditory display and their consistency with the spatial
visual cues. This study evaluates auditory localization
performances under various unimodal and auditory-visual
bimodal conditions in a virtual reality (VR) setup using a
stereoscopic display and binaural reproduction over
headphones in static conditions. The auditory localization
performances observed in the present study are in line
with those reported in real conditions, suggesting that VR
gives rise to consistent auditory and visual spatial
cues. These results validate the use of VR for future
psychophysics experiments with auditory and visual
stimuli. They also emphasize the importance of a
spatially accurate auditory and visual rendering for VR
setups.
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