With the advent of the era of big data, the development of Internet technology has provided more platforms for the development of traditional culture and expanded the scope of influence of traditional culture. In the development process of Tai Chi, how to give full play to the advantages of information technology, enhance the influence of Tai Chi, and promote the dissemination and inheritance of the Chinese traditional sports culture are the problems that need to be solved at present. This paper took the population of Tai Chi practicing in X community as the investigation object and analyzed the current inheritance and development status of Tai Chi, found out the main problems in the inheritance and development of Tai Chi, and finally put forward the path of using VR technology in information technology for spread. In addition, the satisfaction of residents with the transmission and inheritance of Tai Chi was measured at the policy, economic, social, and technical levels and compared with the satisfaction of residents before and after the application of VR technology through experiments. The results showed that after the use of VR technology, residents were more involved in Tai Chi and had better satisfaction at all levels.