Information processing device and information processing method

An information processing method comprising:

• acquiring surrounding information of surrounding environment of a vehicle;
• setting a virtual viewpoint position ahead of the vehicle in a traveling direction, the virtual viewpoint position being a position of a virtual vehicle traveling ahead of the vehicle in the surrounding environment;
• using the acquired surrounding information and generating virtual surrounding information indicating the surrounding environment at the set virtual viewpoint position;
• transmitting a first control signal for controlling an external device located at a location away from the vehicle to display the generated virtual surrounding information;
• receiving, from the external device, movement instruction information for moving the virtual viewpoint position as driving operation information on a driving operation of the vehicle input by a second user;
• moving the virtual viewpoint position according to the movement instruction information;
• generating driving assistance information for assisting a first user who manually drives the vehicle based on the received driving operation information;
• and
• generating a second control signal for controlling an output device in the vehicle to output the driving assistance information, the output device being a device for outputting image information to the first user;
• and
• transmitting the second control signal to the output device,
• wherein the second control signal is a control signal for controlling the output device to display a virtual vehicle image representing the virtual vehicle so as to be superimposed at the virtual viewpoint position on a real scenery of the surrounding environment of the vehicle.