Replacing windows desktop with my own 3d desktop

I am in search of an example where someone used unity to replace the windows desktop window. I found one on the forums, but the link was dead.

My objective is to create my own 3d desktop environment. I am currently just running a windowed app full screen which is okay, but not ideal. I can also replace the explorer reference in the windows registry settings, but that is also not ideal. I understand I may need the pro version of unity to do it in order to leverage the windows API.

Anyway, if anyone has done this before and has something I can look at, I would appreciate it.

 

Hello,

That is interesting idea to try. I have not seen anyone doing it before with Unity but logically looking at it you need to:

- Run a full screen app
- Use windows API a lot so you can handle everything
- Make some kind of 3D gui with custom widgets, windows or whatever that will be used display the data and react to events.


And since you can use C# i think it can be done it's a lot of work tough.