The increasing popularity of Virtual Reality (VR) has provoked scholars’ interest to explore its potential in creating immersive and visual learning environments for various education purposes, but little empirical evidence can be adduced to verify the educational values of VR in interpreting teaching and training. The current study investigated the potentials and possible constraints of VR-assisted interpreting teaching in universities by comparing students’ performance in VR-assisted and traditional face-to-face teaching modes respectively....