Colopl, Inc.

Atsushi Inomata

Taichiro Shiraishi

Norihiro Kubo

Kento Nakashima

Eita Kikuchi

Toshiki Ando

A method includes providing a virtual space to a first user via a head-mounted device (HMD) including a display. The virtual space includes a first avatar associated with the first user, a character object operable based on an input operation on a controller, a second avatar associated with a second user, and a virtual camera defining a field-of-view image to be provided to the HMD. The method further includes determining a viewpoint mode. In a first viewpoint mode the virtual camera is associated with a viewpoint of the first avatar. In a second viewpoint mode the virtual camera is associated with a viewpoint of the character object. The viewpoint is determined based on at least one of an input operation determined in advance on the controller or a state of the controller. The method includes providing the field-of-view image via the HMD in accordance with the determined viewpoint mode.

Information processing method and apparatus for executing the information processing method

A method includes defining a virtual space including a virtual camera. The method further includes displaying on a head-mounted device a field of view in the virtual space based on a location of the virtual camera in the virtual space. The method further includes moving the field of view by updating the image displayed on the head-mounted device. Moving of the field of view includes moving the field of view at a first speed. Moving of the field of view further includes moving the field of view at a second speed slower than the first speed.

Method of suppressing VR sickness, system for executing the method, and information processing device

A method including acquiring positional information for identifying a position of a terminal associated with a first player. The method further includes acquiring a map corresponding to a predetermined region having the position as a center of the map. The method further includes progressing a game associated with the first player based on the positional information and the map. The method further includes acquiring facility information for identifying a facility contained in the map. The method further includes setting a game parameter corresponding to the first player based on the facility information. The method further includes progressing the game based on the game parameter.

Game method, game terminal, and game system utilizing map data

A method includes defining a virtual space. The virtual space comprises a first avatar object, a first character object, a second avatar object, and a second character object. The method includes defining a plurality of operation modes for operating the virtual space. The method includes moving, in accordance with an operation of the virtual space by the first user being executed in the first mode, the first character object in accordance with the input to the first controller. The method includes moving, in accordance with an operation of the virtual space by the first user being executed in the second mode, the first avatar object based on the input to the first controller. The method includes generating a visual-field image in accordance with a motion of a head-mounted device (HMD) associated with the first user. The method includes displaying the visual-field image on the HMD.

A method includes defining a virtual space including includes a first avatar object associated with a first user. The first avatar object includes a first part and a second part. The method includes moving the first avatar object in response to a first input from the first user. The first input includes a first motion information for identifying a motion of a part of a body of the first user, and the first part of the first avatar object is moved in accordance with the first motion information. The method includes acquiring supplementary information, independent of a detected movement of the first user, for defining a motion of the second part. The method includes moving the second part based on the supplementary information. The method includes identifying a visual field in the virtual space of a second user different from the first user. The method includes generating a visual-field image.

Information processing method and system for executing the information processing method

A method includes generating a visual field image to be visually recognized by a user within a virtual space image, the virtual space image forming a virtual space within which the user is immersed. The method also includes generating a transitional image to be visually recognized by the user during a transitional period, the visual field image being updated during the transitional period. The method further includes displaying the visual field image and the transitional image using a head mounted display. Generating the transitional image includes one or more of updating the visual field image in synchronization with a movement of the head mounted display; or updating the visual field image without synchronization with the movement of the head mounted display by generating a transitional image having a reduced information amount to be visually recognized by the user.

Method and apparatus for changing a field of view without synchronization with movement of a head-mounted display

A method includes defining a virtual space. The virtual space includes a first avatar object and a second avatar object. The first avatar object being associated with a first user terminal. The first user terminal comprising a first head-mounted device (HMD) associated with a first user. The second avatar object being associated with a second user terminal. The second user terminal comprising a second HMD associated with a second user. The method includes defining a visual field in the virtual space in association with a motion of the second HMD. The method includes generating a visual-field image that corresponds to the visual field. The method includes displaying the visual-field image on the second HMD. The method includes receiving first information indicating that the first user is not wearing the first HMD. The method includes changing the visual-field image on the second HMD in response to the first information being received.

Information processing method, virtual space delivering system and apparatus therefor

A method including generating a virtual space image for displaying on a head mounted display (HMD). The method further includes acquiring a rotational direction and a rotational speed of the HMD. The method further includes subjecting the virtual space image to blurring processing based on the rotational direction and the rotational speed, the blurring processing being performed on end regions of the virtual space image on both sides of the virtual space image in a direction corresponding to the rotational direction, a size of the end regions corresponding to the rotational speed, and an intensity of blurring of the end regions corresponding to the rotational speed.

Method of providing a virtual space image subjected to blurring processing based on detected displacement, and system therefor

A method includes defining a virtual space to be associated with a first user. The virtual space includes a second avatar associated with a second user. The virtual space is associated with a first head-mounted device (HMD) connectable to a first computer. The method further includes receiving a signal transmitted from a second computer associated with a second user. The method further includes detecting a communication quality between the first computer and the second computer based on the signal. The method further includes displaying the second avatar in the virtual space based on the detected communication quality.

Method for communicating via virtual space and system for executing the method

Method of suppressing VR sickness, system for executing the method , and information processing device

A method for controlling an immersive head mounted display configured to provide a virtual space to a user. The method includes generating a virtual space image that forms a virtual space viewable by the user. The method further includes determining a reference line of sight. The method further includes determining a field-of-view region of the virtual space based on the reference line of sight. The method further includes generating a region of the virtual space image corresponding to the field-of-view region as a field-of-view image having an image quality higher than an image quality of a different portion of the virtual space image.

Method for controlling head mounted display, and system for implemeting the method

A system includes a first device configured to cause a virtual reality image to be output by a display. The system also includes a second device communicatively coupled with the first device. The second device is configured to detect a user input associated with an action capable of being displayed in the virtual reality image. The second device is also configured to cause the first device to cause an object to be displayed in the virtual reality image based on the user input. The object at least partially includes a graphic representative of one or more of the second device, a user movement with respect to the second device, or the user input.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Atsushi Inomata