Information processing system, non-transitory storage medium having information processing program stored therein, information processing apparatus, and information processing method

A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein an information processing program executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus that vibrates a vibrator which vibrates according to an input signal representing a vibration waveform, the computer being caused to execute:

• sequentially calculating a virtual movement of a virtual object, and changing the movement of the virtual object according to an operation performed on an operation device including at least one sensor;
• generating a signal representing a vibration waveform based on a state, of a movement of the virtual object, obtained when the virtual object is in contact with another object, or comes into contact with another object, based on calculation of the virtual movement;
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• outputting, to the vibrator, a signal representing a combined waveform obtained by a first vibration waveform and a second vibration waveform being combined with each other, in a case where a signal representing the second vibration waveform is generated when a signal representing the first vibration waveform is generated.

An information processing method executed by an information processing system that vibrates a vibrator which vibrates according to an input signal representing a vibration waveform, the information processing method comprising:

• sequentially calculating a virtual movement of a virtual object, and changing the movement of the virtual object according to an operation performed on an operation device including at least one sensor;
• generating a signal representing a vibration waveform based on a state, of a movement of the virtual object, obtained when the virtual object is in contact with another object, or comes into contact with another object, based on the calculating;
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• outputting, to the vibrator, a signal representing a combined waveform obtained by combining a first vibration waveform and a second vibration waveform, in a case where a signal representing the second vibration waveform is generated while a signal representing the first vibration waveform is also generated.