Information processing device, information processing method, and program

An information processing method comprising:

• sensing real-world sensory information of a real-world user to generate information indicative of a state of the real-world user who is wearing the information processing device, the state being an indication of a physical state in the real-world;
• a relative localization position of virtual image information of a virtual image, the virtual image having an associated sound source, the relative localization position is relative to a real-world position of the real-world user;
• wherein the relative localization position is based on the virtual image information and the state of the real-world user, the virtual image information is associated with the virtual image which would exist as if the virtual object existed in a real-world space;
• processing a sound signal of the sound source such that a sound image source is created as being sourced from the calculated relative localization position of the virtual image information;
• wherein the relative localization position of the virtual image information is a three-dimensional position including a height and left-to-right and front-to-back positions, all of which are relative to the real-world position of a center of a body of the user;
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• playing the processed sound signal according to the relative localization position of the virtual image information.

A program causing a computer to function as:

• sensing real-world sensory information of a real-world user to generate information indicative of a state of the real-world user who is wearing the information processing device, the state being an indication of a physical state in the real-world;
• a relative localization position of virtual image information of a virtual image, the virtual image having an associated sound source, the relative localization position is relative to a real-world position of the real-world user;
• wherein the relative localization position is based on the virtual image information and the state of the real-world user, the virtual image information is associated with the virtual image which would exist as if the virtual object existed in a real-world space;
• processing a sound signal of the sound source such that a sound image source is created as being sourced from the calculated relative localization position of the virtual image information;
• wherein the relative localization position of the virtual image information is a three-dimensional position including a height and left-to-right and front-to-back positions, all of which are relative to the real-world position of a center of a body of the user;
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• playing the processed sound signal according to the relative localization position of the virtual image information.