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Details
Inventors: Miyashita, Ken; Nashida, Tatsushi;
Assignee: Sony Corporation (Tokyo, JP)
Primary Examiner: Zimmerman; Mark K.
Assistant Examiner: Lee; Albert K.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Limbach & Limbach LLP.

Positions of users other than a particular user in a virtual reality space shared by many users can be recognized with ease and in a minimum display space. The center (or intersection) of a cross of radar map corresponds to the particular user and the positions of other users (to be specific, the avatars of the other users) around the particular user are indicated by dots or squares colored red for example in the radar map. This radar map is displayed on virtual reality space image in a superimposed manner.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is therefore an object of the present invention to allow a user to easily recognize the position of another user sharing a three-dimensional virtual reality space.
An information processing apparatus described in claim 1, an information processing method described in claim 8, and an information providing medium described in claim 9 are characterized by displaying positional information associated with the position of an update object existing in a three-dimensional virtual reality space by superimposing the positional information on a three-dimensional virtual reality image.
The information providing medium herein denotes not only package media such as a floppy disk and a CD-ROM in which computer programs are stored but also a transmission medium by which a computer program is downloaded via a network such as the Internet for example.
The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the accompanying drawings, in which like reference numerals are used to identify the same or similar parts in several views.



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