Desktop integration in graphics environments

  • Authors:
  • Torsten Ullrich;Volker Settgast;Christian Ofenböck;Dieter W. Fellner

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für ComputerGraphik und Wissens Visualisierung Technische Universität Graz and Visual Computing Division, Fraunhofer Austria Research, Graz, Austria;Institut für ComputerGraphik und Wissens Visualisierung Technische Universität Graz and Visual Computing Division, Fraunhofer Austria Research, Graz, Austria;Institut für ComputerGraphik und Wissens Visualisierung Technische Universität Graz, Austria;Institut für ComputerGraphik und Wissens Visualisierung Technische Universität Graz and Visual Computing Division, Fraunhofer Austria Research, Graz, Austria and Fraunhofer Institute for ...

  • Venue:
  • JVRC'09 Proceedings of the 15th Joint virtual reality Eurographics conference on Virtual Environments
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the usage of the Remote Desktop Protocol to integrate arbitrary, legacy applications in various environments. This approach accesses a desktop on a real computer or within a virtual machine. The result is not one image of the whole desktop, but a sequence of images of all desktop components (windows, dialogs, etc.). These components are rendered into textures and fed into a rendering framework (OpenSG). There the functional hierarchy is represented by a scene graph. In this way the desktop components can be rearranged freely and painted according to circumstances of the graphical environment supporting a wide range of display settings - from immersive environments via high-resolution tiled displays to mobile devices.