Conclusion as of May 10, 2006…

We are still in the developing stage of so-called "VOLUMEONE" and we keep adding features of new functions to it. We will start experiment video casting from this platform shortly and will commence collaborative programs in June with Kawasaki City Museum and in July with the BankART, a not-for-profit gallery of contemporary art, in Yokohama. Then, we are hoping to conduct monitoring tests in collaboration with children's hospital and retirement homes within the vicinity. Here is an example of video introducing the building of Kawasaki City Museum in Figure 3. We would definitely conduct a collaborative video web-cast with this museum to deliver animation films using their collection for children in hospitals.

Figure. 3

We understand that this is going to be a long term and time consuming project, but our ultimate goal is to set an example of democratizing multi-media tools for on-line educational programs at any museum anywhere in the world. We would like to help particularly those museums with financial restriction for developing original web site, hoping to have flash video/web-casting capability. Anyone could produce pod-casting video programs in-house with "VOLUMEONE".

We were also looking into the usage of mobile phones with same purposes, but since the technology used in mobile phone is heavily dependent on each device, one may have to make a serious commitment with a particular company for the programs to run on a particular device. With such conditions, we choose rather to wait for a while until all the mobile phones come to share some sort of standard for receiving video files and come with bigger screen. This may not take too long before it becomes true.