Virtual space display system

A virtual space display method that provides a passenger on a self-driving moving body with display of a virtual space that is different from a real environment surrounding the moving body, the virtual space display method comprising computer-implemented steps of:

• obtaining information that specifies features that influence a path along which the moving body is to move, and determining a feature as an important feature from among features located in the surrounding of the moving body, if the feature causes the moving body to stop, slow down, or avoid the feature such that the passenger's feeling of a motion or the passenger's expectation of the motion is influenced;
• converting the important feature into an object based on a predetermined rule, by referring to a predetermined correspondence relationship according to a type of the important feature such that the converted object is classified in accordance with the type of the important feature;
• and
• causing a display device to display the virtual space including the converted object,
• wherein the converted object provides the passenger with an expectation of stopping, slowing down, or avoiding the converted object in the virtual space such that the passenger's feeling of a motion actually caused by the moving body's stopping, slowing down, or avoiding the important feature matches the expectation of stopping, slowing down, or avoiding the converted object in the virtual space, wherein the passenger does not expect the motion to be caused without the converted object in the virtual space, while the moving body moves irrespective of the passenger's intention and the passenger has no control of the path of the moving body or a movement of the moving body, and has no control of a movement in the virtual space corresponding to the path of the moving body or the movement of the moving body.

A computer readable non-transitory recording medium in which a computer program is recorded, wherein the computer program is performed to provide a passenger on a self-driving moving body with display of a virtual space that is different from a real environment surrounding the moving body, the computer program causing a computer to implement:

• a function of obtaining information that specifies features influence a path along which the moving body is to move, and determining a feature as an important feature from among features located in the surrounding of the moving body, if the feature causes the moving body to stop, slow down, or avoid the feature such that the passenger's feeling of a motion or the passenger's expectation of the motion is influenced;
• a function of converting the important feature into an object based on a predetermined rule by referring to a predetermined correspondence relationship according to a type of the important feature such that the converted object is classified in accordance with the type of the important feature;
• and
• a function of causing a display device to display the virtual space including the converted object,
• wherein the converted object provides the passenger with an expectation of stopping, slowing down, or avoiding the converted object in the virtual space such that the passenger's feeling of a motion actually caused by the moving body's stopping, slowing down, or avoiding the important feature matches the passenger's expectation of stopping, slowing down, or avoiding the converted object in the virtual space, wherein the passenger does not expect the motion to be caused without the converted object in the virtual space, while the moving body moves irrespective of the passenger's intention and the passenger has no control of the path of the moving body or a movement of the moving body, and has no control of a movement in the virtual space corresponding to the path of the moving body or the movement of the moving body.