The traditional way of watching sports events can no longer meet the modern audience’s demand for interactivity and immersion. The environment interaction perception algorithm in virtual reality provides new ideas to enhance the immersion of live sports events. Using Leap Motion and other sensing devices combined with virtual reality technology, the gestures of the audience can be recognized in real time, thus improving the interaction between the user and the live broadcast environment and enhancing the audience’s sense of presence and participation. This study explores the application of virtual reality technology based on environment interaction perception algorithms in live broadcasting of sports events, using Leap Motion sensors to capture the user’s hand movements and interacting with the virtual reality environment through gesture recognition algorithms. In the experiment, 18 participants watched live sports events using different media and completed the corresponding interactive tasks. The experimental results show that after applying the interactive perception algorithm, the viewer’s operation efficiency is improved by about 30%, and the interaction process is smoother. Through regression analysis, it was found that perceptual algorithm response, algorithm awareness and immersion experience were significantly positively correlated, while perceptual algorithm indifference and intrusiveness were significantly negatively correlated. The study shows that the live sports event broadcasting system based on this algorithm can significantly enhance the immersion of the audience and reduce the operation burden, which provides a useful reference for the development of virtual reality live broadcasting technology.
