New Framework Published for Human-AI Collaboration in Virtual Reality Design Using Large Language Models

A study published on August 4, 2026, introduces a new framework using the VR Dimensionality Framework (8Df) to structure human-AI co-ideation in Virtual Reality design. The research integrates the 8Df across eight dimensions—including spatial, sensory, and psychological—into a dialogic workflow. Testing ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek on a shared VR narrative design task, the study reveals that ChatGPT is implementation-oriented, Gemini is facilitative, and DeepSeek relies on explicit reasoning.

VR Dimensionality Framework (8Df)

• ▪The Virtual Reality Dimensionality Framework (8Df) serves as a theoretical scaffold to structure human-AI co-ideation in Virtual Reality design
• ▪The Virtual Reality Dimensionality Framework (8Df) guides experience design across eight interrelated dimensions: spatial, sensory, placeness, temporal, cultural, social, cognitive, and psychological

Human-AI co-ideation workflow

• ▪Designers often lack structured frameworks that support both creativity and theoretical grounding in complex media workflows like Virtual Reality
• ▪The study integrates the Virtual Reality Dimensionality Framework (8Df) into a dialogic co-ideation workflow to guide human-AI design processes

LLM comparative performance analysis

• ▪Gemini demonstrates a facilitative and alignment-focused approach during the framework-guided Virtual Reality design process
• ▪ChatGPT exhibits an implementation-oriented tendency when responding to the Virtual Reality Dimensionality Framework (8Df) design process
• ▪The comparative case study evaluates how ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek respond to the same framework-guided design process
• ▪DeepSeek displays explicit reasoning and a principled articulation of design within the framework-guided Virtual Reality design process

VR narrative design application

• ▪The three Large Language Models ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek were evaluated and compared using a shared Virtual Reality narrative design task
• ▪The research on human-AI co-ideation was supported by the Guangdong Higher Education Upgrading Plan and the Guangdong and Hong Kong Universities Joint Research Collaboration Scheme