A server in the R&D Center creates the computer graphics of the virtual island, and uses MPEG-2 technology to transmit them as 3-D moving images to SMAIS Toshiba at a maximum of 30 frames per second. When retrieving a high- definition image chosen by a visitor, the server confirms the image's ID on the basis of its position in the gallery, and issues a retrieve command to the T-Brain Club database. The requested image is transmitted to SMAIS Toshiba and displayed in real time.

While gallery systems based on high-definition images stored in electronic databases are finding increasing popularity, the Toshiba Electronic Virtual Gallery is the first system in Japan to connect a server and database in remote locations via an ATM high-speed network. It points the way to systems able to serve multiple subscribers. Such future systems are expected to have the potential to bring the atmosphere of an actual visit to a gallery to the home: faithful reproduction of works of art will be reinforced by reproductions of the building itself, both inside and outside, supporting the sense of entering and being in the actual gallery or gallery.