A VR image compression transmission method and system are provided. A video image to be sent by a server is obtained and the video image is locally compressed according to a compression range to obtain a first compressed video image. Video encoding is performed on the first compressed video image to obtain a transmission video image, and then the transmission video image is transmitted to a client and video decoding is performed on the transmission video image to restore the transmission video image into a second compressed video image. The second compressed video image is decompressed to obtain a display video image.