INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

The present invention acquires surrounding information of surrounding environment of a vehicle; sets a virtual viewpoint position ahead of the vehicle in a traveling direction; uses the acquired surrounding information and generates virtual surrounding information indicating the surrounding environment at the set virtual viewpoint position; transmits a first control signal for controlling an external device located at a location away from the vehicle to display the generated virtual surrounding information; receives driving operation information on a driving operation of the vehicle output from the external device; generates driving assistance information for assisting driving of the vehicle based on the received driving operation information; and generates a second control signal for controlling an output device installed in the vehicle to output the driving assistance information.