Postsecondary STEM courses include substantial mathematics and algorithms. Students need motivation

to dig deep into the topic. Multisensory modeling allows users to explore objects with multiple

senses, i.e., audio, visual, and touch. If augmented with virtual reality (VR), the overall

experience could be more immersive and enjoyable. This research investigated students’ experience

with unimodal versus multimodal visualization and exploration of wave functions with and without VR

integration. Students interactively explored wave functions, i.e., sine, cosine, sawtooth, square,

and triangular waves, with 3D models to concretize understanding of wave parameters, i.e.,

frequency, amplitude, phase, and vertical shifts. Initial findings showed that students preferred

the audio- visual exploration of wave functions over the visual-only version in VR-enhanced and

non-VR platforms. Overall, VR enriched their experience while interacting with the data.