Abstract: For a long time, the ideological and political courses in universities have been faced with the plight of students' subjective status being ignored and students' interest in learning is generally low. How to expand the teaching channels of ideological and political courses and improve the learning effect and satisfaction of learners are the focus of researchers. Based on the activity theory and the principle of taking students as the main body, this paper constructs an innovative model of university ideological and political courses learning space expansion under the virtual reality technology, by analyzing how the students, as the dominant interact with other elements, and experience the whole process of immersion, interaction, perception and intelligence learning activities of virtual reality learning space. The educational result of "broad but unprofessional" is the biggest difficulty of virtual reality learning space in ideological and political courses teaching in universities. We can promote the breadth and depth of the application of virtual reality learning space in universities through the reform of the whole teaching process and the formulation of incentive mechanism.