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PowerBI and Unity integration

Discussion in 'Formats & External Tools' started by IndaACN, Oct 18, 2018.

  1. IndaACN

    IndaACN

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    Has anyone embedded a PowerBI dashboard display in a Unity app or put a Unity app embedded into a PowerBI dashboard?

    I haven't found any solid answers on this and would just like to confirm that someone has done it before. The approach taken would also be appreciated.
     
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  2. GeorgeAdamon

    GeorgeAdamon

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    +1

    2 years later, this remains a very good question.


    I did a little bit of hyperlink safari, and here are my findings:

    I found this thread where a Microsoft employee states:
    " At this moment, embedding a tile is actually adding a <iframe> tag in a HTML page. If Unity 3D can integrate some HTML stuff, it might be possible."

    The question then becomes, "How to integrate iframe in Unity?"
    Which naturally leads to the question "How to render HTML in Unity?"
    Things are looking pretty grim in the open-source world, according to this post.
    • There used to be an open-source asset, called uwebkit, which is unfortunately discontinued :(
    • At the moment, this repo looks very active and very popular, but offers no Windows support.
    • There's this paid asset, called Embedded Browser, which has great reviews.
    • There's also UniWebView, quite cheap, with great reviews as well.
    • Then there's Coherent GameFace HTML renderer which is feature-rich, but not free, and doesn't seem to have a fixed price...