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Video Chat Via Transparent Desktop Overlay

Posted by michael on from the dance-for-me dept.

Jason0x21 writes "Wired News has an article about UNC Comp. Sci. researchers developing a transparent desktop overlay for video conferencing, allowing remote coworkers to literally point and interact with things on your screen. The researchers say that Apple's Quartz graphics engine let them go from idea to prototype in 'about 45 minutes'. Windows versions predicted in the future."

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  1. Talk about an uber-trojan by dbc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, let's say those clever folks over at whatever-Gator-calls-themselves-now gets the brilliant idea that they could download one of them thar transparent-overlay-thingies whenever you browse to random-evil-webpage. Then, whoosh! They can sell remote access to your desktop so that advertisers can move all the annoying icons out of the way so that you can see the advertising more clearly. Or whatever. An since the overlay is transparent, the user can't figure out what is happening and simply thinks their system is posessed by the devil.

  2. Re:Where are the screenshots? by cujo_1111 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Looks like a reflection, rather than a transparent window.

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