Virtual reality technology has been widely used due to its characteristics of immersion and interaction and has become a research hot spot both at home and abroad. In this research, the analysis technology of visual knowledge graph is adopted, and the core journals included in the CNKI database are taken as the literature source. The domestic research of virtual reality in the field of education. The researches show that the hot spots in this field include the construction of virtual experiment platform, the experiment application of medical simulation, the experiment application of simulation to improve safety, the teaching reform propelled by the application of virtual technology, the application of virtual simulation in innovation and entrepreneurship education, and the theoretical research of virtual learning community. Meanwhile, the research frontiers in this field are analyzed through the keyword burst graph, including the application of virtual reality in education, the informational construction of universities, and the integration of virtual reality and frontier technology.