A desktop inside unity

Is there a way to show my desktop when I activate play in unity. Basically having my desktop inside my scene on a object. I'm new to unity and hope someone can help me.

love,
Zelos

 

https://answers.unity.com/questions/869378/viewing-desktop-in-scene.html

Could this work?

 

Sounds very difficult to me. But if you want to pursue it, be sure to mention which platform you're thinking of, as the answer to this will certainly be platform-specific.

 

First off; thank you JoeStrout en JeffD for spending your time and trying to help me out.

What I want to achieve is the following;

Step 1;

-- Having an object appear using Merge cube or Vuforia. (

)
-- This is pretty easily achievable, even for a beginner like me.

-- Just having it appear 2 meters in front of my face is also fine. ( Like this this guys did at 8:14 (

))

-- I'm not sure which one I prefer.

-- Now the tricky part;

-- I want my desktop to appear (on my phone or my AR headset).
-- For this to work I need code that opens my desktop in-scene.
-- Or maybe a streaming video like Jeff suggested!
-- I'm currently brainstorming.
-- Both IOS or Windows Desktop. But preferably Windows.

\\ Solutions I'm currently brainstorming about;

-- Using Rainity - Dynamic Wallpapers

-- I found this piece of code about viewing a desktop in-scene.
-- https://answers.unity.com/questions/869378/viewing-desktop-in-scene.html
-- Using vr desktop
-- A desktop GUI

I'm basically trying to set up an Augment Reality Desktop!

// Step 2;
// Make it track my camera, so I have a head tracking Augmented Reality Desktop. (Which I need for my main project)

 

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/video/ump-win-mac-linux-webgl-49625
might help me!

 

There are still a lot out there trying to get Windows or other programs (Browser, Notepad, etc) to run inside an object in Unity during runtime. There are many approaches, although most seem to involve long, processor-intensive methods. For example, many use the screenshot method where the app takes constant screen shots of the web-browser and 'feeds' it to a texture in Unity. I have gotten emulators to work in Unity, but a Windows 7/10 emulator would be super-slow and complicated (however Windows 10 Mobile Edition might work). You could make a simple C# or java Web Browser, I did one for a hand-held system before, basically it 'reads' the *.html page at the web address and looks for HREF links, IMG pictures and text and displays them. Then use www in Unity to download the pics, and put the text into a GUI object. (This is basically making an app that runs inside Unity) I've seen a few people trying to get NotePad or WinCalc to run on a Unity object, but it might be easier to write your own text editing app/calc that runs inside Unity. There's currently(2017) an asset called Awesomium, although it is dependant on the C++ Awesomium SDK, really complicated to set up, and it's newest version is not free. However, it is supposed to render a real-time browser window onto an render-texture object. I haven't tried it yet so I don't know what browser it uses but...

https://medium.com/google-developers/real-time-image-capture-in-unity-458de1364a4c

Texture2D tex = new Texture2D (200, 300, TextureFormat.RGB24, false);
Rectangle screenSize = System.Windows.Forms.Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds;
Bitmap target = new Bitmap (screenSize.Width, screenSize.Height);
using (System.Drawing.Graphics g = System.Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(target)) {
g.CopyFromScreen (0, 0, 0, 0, new Size (screenSize.Width, screenSize.Height));
}
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream ();
target.Save (ms, ImageFormat.Png);
ms.Seek (0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

tex.LoadImage (ms.ToArray ());

renderer.material.mainTexture = tex;

-- UPDATE IM GOING TO TRY AND USE AWESOMIUM + https://rainway.com/

But any experienced coder, what is faster the real time rendering of images or the real time rendering od the browser

The more complicated it is the more excited I get if it works, -- il update tomorrow

 

I want to play in on A mixed reality headset, so windows oculus. I am thinking of buying a GUI in the asset store. It's also not really a game. More an app to just make my desktop show in AR.

 

I am going to buy a GUI, I can try and do the same thing, essentially recreating what these GUI systems do. Set up an orthographic camera that renders a specific layer. Outside of your regular scene, add quads, colliders, and the like, within this camera's view area.

 

https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.1/Doc...ental.Rendering.AsyncGPUReadback.Request.html

https://github.com/tylerwhall/desktop-duplication-sample

im still going to read what is the best option before making a decision
I found lot more on the internet

 

I need help getting

https://github.com/keijiro/AsyncCaptureTest

To work

 

I meant Augmented Reality. I want to use the real world.
This hero
Keijiro Takahashi
Made; https://github.com/keijiro/AsyncCaptureTest
But I have NO CLUE where to start. It's fun due

 

Ok I got everything working. Thank you all. *opens 24th energy drink*

 

So im Developing an office application for work, and im trying to figure out how to share my desktop screen inside the unity scene for like presentations inside VR. Is this like what you were doing?

 

Have you found a solution yet ?

 

To anyone that has achieved this successfully - would you mind explaining how it can be done? Or posting a link to a project on GitHub or something? I'm looking to copy my desktop to a render texture in Unity on Windows.