A Study on the Practicality of Virtual Reality Technology in the Teaching of Photography in Colleges and Universities

Objectives: The relationship between the image and reality has been changing throughout the process of the continuous evolution of the image. It has become an existence that the image has been changing from covering of reality to the initial representation of reality, from virtual reality to the complete invasion of reality. People can virtually understand and experience reality through the construction of the real world through photography. Then the real world can become a constantly changing image on the screen. Therefore, the challenges facing photography art today must be the technological innovation and the thinking of the new artistic dimension produced by contemporary images. Therefore, photography education in colleges and universities is facing many difficulties and challenges in the digital era. From traditional photography to digital photography, it is a worth thinking question that educators should go through a process of adaptation or transformation. Methods: By analyzing the characteristics and advantages of VR technology, taking “technology as the starting point”, it is proposed to integrate VR technology into the study of photography and discuss the practical role of VR technology in the photography course. Then summarizing “virtual simulation” and other scientific and technological means Impact on teaching. Results: VR technology can create a simulated teaching environment, improve the problem of the weak practicality of existing courses, and provide a training environment and concept that matches the communication environment. Through immersive experience to improve students' digital literacy combining the three abilities of information communication, visual literacy and applied technology. Entering photography teaching in colleges with technology can expand the breadth of photography teaching, transforming photography teaching from skill learning to talent training, and from photography professional technology learning to digital literacy cultivation. Conclusions: In the context of converged media, many virtual images and digital technologies are used in the creation and expression of images. The expansion of three-dimensional space, the interaction of VR technology, and the appearance of immersive sensory experience have expanded new directions and ideas for photography education in colleges. Through the feasibility analysis of the integration of VR technology into the university photography teaching and the study of the value of “technology” in the development of science and technology and social transformation. I am trying to explore the importance of virtual reality technology in photography education. Eventually, photography education will maintain a dialogue with the times in the progress of technology in the digital age.