Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing system and an information processing method capable of suitably reducing an immersive feeling of a user. An information control system of the present technology includes a presentation control unit that presents content including an object to a user and changes the object according to a stage of interaction of the user with the object at a timing according to an immersion degree of the user with respect to the content. The presentation control unit changes a plurality of types of visual characteristics of the object. Furthermore, the presentation control unit changes a visual characteristic including at least one of a position, a depth, a motion, a size, or a shape of the object. The present technology can be applied to a system that provides VR or AR experience.

Abstract: It is desirable to provide a technology making it possible to enhance noticeability of a virtual object. Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes a display controlling section that causes a display device to start displaying a first virtual object while a user is moving in a real space, performs distance keeping control to substantially keep a distance between the user and the first virtual object, ends the distance keeping control in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, and changes the distance between the user and the first virtual object.

Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires first user information related to a first user who is a user on a side to be watched over and second user information related to a second user who is a user on a side of watching over the first user; and a determination unit that determines an abstraction level of presentation information that is information indicating a state of the first user on the basis of the first user information and the second user information.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a movement assistance device and a movement assistance method capable of safely guiding a user. A movement assistance device includes a drive control unit configured to control a drive unit to apply, to a user, an assisting force that is a resultant force of a virtual force that is a force for stabilizing a posture of the user and a guiding force that is a force for guiding the user. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a movement assistance system using a drone.

Abstract: It is desirable to provide a technology making it possible to enhance noticeability of a virtual object. Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes a display controlling section that causes a display device to start displaying a first virtual object while a user is moving in a real space, performs distance keeping control to substantially keep a distance between the user and the first virtual object, ends the distance keeping control in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, and changes the distance between the user and the first virtual object.

Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, from a terminal device, input information input to the terminal device by a user; a generation unit that generates content of displaying an input item of each of functions including a corresponding input item that is an input item corresponding to the input information; and a transmission unit that transmits the content generated by the generation unit to the terminal device.

Abstract: Implemented is a configuration of being able to reliably notify a device characteristic to a user by naturally generating and outputting a system speech including the device characteristic during an interaction with the user. The configuration includes a data processing section that generates and outputs a system speech including device characteristic information. The data processing section selects device characteristic information that is relevant to what is talked about during an interaction between the user and the information processing device, and generates and outputs a system speech including the selected device characteristic information. The data processing section receives an input of information of a user selection made to an option presented to the user, includes device characteristic information that is relevant to the inputted selection information into a system speech to be executed in an interaction with the user, and outputs the system speech.

Abstract: It is desirable to provide a technology making it possible to enhance noticeability of a virtual object. Provided is an information processing apparatus (10) that includes a display controlling section (129) that causes a display device to start displaying a first virtual object while a user is moving in a real space, performs distance keeping control to substantially keep a distance between the user and the first virtual object, ends the distance keeping control in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, and changes the distance between the user and the first virtual object.

Abstract: An information processing device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a movement-information acquisition unit, a gaze-information acquisition unit, and a display control unit. The movement-information acquisition unit acquires movement information about a gesture by a user. The gaze-information acquisition unit acquires information about a gazing point of the user. The display control unit controls a display device on the basis of the movement information. The display control unit causes the display device to display a first virtual object including information relating to a target object in a first region related to the target object, and to vary, on the basis of a position of the gazing point in duration for which the user is making the gesture, how the first virtual object is displayed.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a recognition unit (21) that recognizes a surrounding environment of a current position of a user; a guide control unit (22) that generates guide information corresponding to a characteristic of the user by using a recognition result of the recognition unit and that causes an output device to perform an output thereof; and a change detection unit (23) that detects a changed portion in the surrounding environment of the current position in a case where it is determined that the user has visited the current position in the past, wherein in a case where the change detection unit detects the changed portion, the guide control unit generates the guide information including information causing the user to recognize the changed portion.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes an image obtaining unit and a display control unit. The image obtaining unit obtains a plurality of first divided images obtained by dividing a first image showing a first location along a second direction substantially perpendicular to a first direction, and a plurality of second divided images obtained by dividing a second image showing a second location along the second direction. The display control unit arranges and simultaneously displays the plurality of first divided images and the plurality of second divided images along the first direction on a display device of a user at a third location.

Abstract: Provided is a limited utterance determination unit that determines whether or not a user utterance is a limited utterance among one or more pre-registered limited utterances, a risk determination unit that, in the case where the result of the determination is that the user utterance is not any one of the one or more pre-registered limited utterances, determines a risk of a process corresponding to the user utterance, and a process execution unit that, in the case where the risk of the process corresponding to the user utterance is not a low risk, outputs a guidance that prompts a user to make a limited utterance included in the pre-registered limited utterances are provided. In the case where the risk is not the low risk, the process execution unit outputs an alert including explanation information regarding the risk.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that includes processing circuitry communicatively coupled to a display device. The processing circuitry receives information related to a status transition of a user during display of a spherical content image of virtual space, where the spherical content image covers an entire field of view of the user, receives a real-space image acquired by an outward-facing camera included in the display device on a basis of the received information related to the status transition, the display device is wearable on a head of the user, and the display device includes display that covers the entire field of view, and the processing circuitry controls the display device to display a translucent spherical content image and the real-space image.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an acquisition section and a stimulus controller. The acquisition section acquires visually-induced-motion-sickness information that includes at least one of information obtained by estimating a state of a visually induced motion sickness of a user who is viewing video content, or information obtained by predicting the state of the visually induced motion sickness. The stimulus controller controls provision of a stimulus to the user, on the basis of the visually-induced-motion-sickness information.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that includes a display controlling section that causes a display device to start displaying a first virtual object while a user is moving in a real space, performs distance keeping control to substantially keep a distance between the user and the first virtual object, ends the distance keeping control in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, and changes the distance between the user and the first virtual object.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that has control so that, when detected a status transition of a user including a rising motion or a moving motion of the user during reproduction of a wide-angle image covering the entire field of view of the user, a real-space image acquired by an outward-facing camera provided on a display device that is worn on the head of the user and has a display unit covering the entire field of view is displayed on the display unit in real-time and a 2D image corresponding to a portion of the wide-angle image is displayed on the real-space image.

Abstract: A server device (50) (corresponding to one example of “information processing apparatus”) includes: an acquisition unit (53a) that acquires a state of a user who appreciates an exhibit (P) (corresponding to one example of “appreciated object”); an estimation unit (53b) that estimates an appreciation pattern, which is a type of an appreciation style of the user, based on the state of the user acquired by the acquisition unit (53a); a determination unit (53c) that determines a mode of a guide regarding the exhibit (P) presented to the user in accordance with the appreciation pattern estimated by the estimation unit (53b); and a guide control unit (53d) that executes guide control in which control is performed such that the guide is presented to the user in accordance with the mode of the guide determined by the determination unit (53c).

Abstract: An information processing apparatus and an information processing method are provided that enable suitable determination of sensing results used in estimating a user state. The information processing apparatus is provided with a determination unit that determines, on the basis of a predetermined reference, one or more second sensing results used in estimating the user state from among a plurality of first sensing results received from a plurality of devices. The information processing apparatus is further provided with an output control unit that controls an output of information on the basis of the one or more second sensing results.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that has control so that, when detected a status transition of a user including a rising motion or a moving motion of the user during reproduction of a wide-angle image covering the entire field of view of the user, a real-space image acquired by an outward-facing camera provided on a display device that is worn on the head of the user and has a display unit covering the entire field of view is displayed on the display unit in real-time and a 2D image corresponding to a portion of the wide-angle image is displayed on the real-space image.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes an image obtaining unit and a display control unit. The image obtaining unit obtains a plurality of first divided images obtained by dividing a first image showing a first location along a second direction substantially perpendicular to a first direction, and a plurality of second divided images obtained by dividing a second image showing a second location along the second direction. The display control unit arranges and simultaneously displays the plurality of first divided images and the plurality of second divided images along the first direction on a display device of a user at a third location.