Abstract The existing teaching resources in higher vocational schools can no longer meet the needs of students. Several opinions of the Ministry of Education on comprehensively improving the quality of higher vocational education point out that it is necessary to make full use of modern information technology to develop virtual factories, virtual experiments, and combine VR technology with vocational education to meet the needs of education and the times. Higher vocational colleges use the emerging and mature VR virtual technology for the classroom teaching of “Interior Design of Catering Space”.