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Collaborative web browsing plays an important role in meetings.
Meeting rooms have usually data projectors so that people can plug
in their laptops and show slides, documents and web pages to
support their message in a meeting.
In realXtend 0.4 it is possible to show web
pages with live flash content, like a Youtube video (see CTN
article about that). The web page to show is defined in the
texture properties as a media URL.
However, it is a bit clumsy to use texture properties to change
the web page when there are lot of people attending a meeting and
possibly wanting to share something.
CTN built a server side solution to the problem using PHP and
javascript.
Follow these steps to test the solution:
- download php and html files
(unzip webscreen.zip)
and upload them to your web server (if you don't have a web server,
get a free hosting from http://www.000webhost.com/. For professional
use CTN recommendshttp://www.hosting24.com.)
- set texture's media URL tohttp://www.cybertechnews.org/webscreen/webscreen.html (use
your own server name here!) and apply the texture to a
cube
- open a browser window to http://www.cybertechnews.org/webscreen/seturl.php (use
your own server name here)
- write a URL (e.g. http://www.realxtend.org) to the text input
field and press enter, after a few seconds, the web page shows in
realXtend viewer, and the same web page is shown to all
participants in the virtual world at the same time.
Extra benefit of this approach is that people who do not have
realXtend can also follow the presentation from the same
URL using a standard browser (you can
test it by using the CTN URLs in the steps above).
If you wish to have several webscreens showing different content,
it is easy to copy the same web files to another folder at the web
server to separate URLs. To develop the solution
further, learn the tricks from this book.
The next topic will be about how to share your
Powerpoint slides in realXtend - stay tuned!
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