This may not be in the right forum, so feel free to move it to the correct place. There's no dedicated "video" forum, so I just basically took a guess on where to put it.
So I participate in a broadcasting program at my school, and we're in an interesting situation. We want the weatherman (or woman, right now it's a guy lol) to be able to work with radar on screen, but we don't have a large touch monitor or anything. We do have a green screen, and our studio is powered by a BlackMagic ATEM TVS with an external sound board connected in via the AES/EBU input. We handle motion graphics with CasparCG and After Effects. I know CasparCG can display webpages on screen, but I need a way to give the weatherman control of the page.
The page in question is http://maps.baronweather.com , and we need to use that page specifically because we have a deal with Baron where we can log in with our credentials and get some handy extra features.
I think the most sensible way to do this is either an iPad (which we can get access to pretty easily) that streams the page wirelessly to the video mixer somehow. Due to limitations of the room we're in, we can't put up a big permanent touch monitor or anything. So is there a pretty low-latency way of streaming iPad video wirelessly to an HDMI output somewhere else? I'm open to spending some money, though obviously pure software ideas would be excellent.
This also needs to be pretty easy for non-techies to use. When I'm gone in a few years I don't want to get phone calls from the school about their weather system not working...lol
Why not just get a 3d mouse? Yeah, they're kinda awkward but this exact thing is right up their alley. And they're cheap, relatively speaking (~$25 or so).
Where are you finding 3D mice for $25? The ones from 3D connexion are the first ones that came up for me, and they're like $200. That does sound like a good idea though. Do you know if those will work with Linux, particularly a little computer like a Raspberry Pi? We have some old junky school desktops (dinky little dual core Pentium machines from the Vista era) that would be perfect for this, or due to space/heat-in-the-equipment-closet constraints we might opt for a Raspberry Pi since they're so fast and cheap now.
Edit: And can you get them wirelessly? That's a major issue for us. All the equipment is 40-50ft away from the "set", and this room is like a drama room when we're not using it so all our stuff has to either be really unobtrusive or hide away somewhere (for example, no cables on tracks across the floor and computers right next to the set, they have to be through the ceiling to a computer in the back)
I've seen them at Fry's for that cheap but if you need 40-50' range, you'll need something highly specialized. No wireless mouse or equiv is going to work over that distance at all! I thought you just needed something to control a computer a few feet away.
AFAIK its only web pages through the chrome browser, custom videos (+ videostream plugin), and apps that have integrated the cast like youtube, netflix, hulu, and the like.
If you guys have a webpage that you pull your stuff from then youll be all set just cast it from the browser.
If you have a custom video then you could use the videostream plugin from the chrome store. I use this for all my rips of DVDs I make for myself. Works great. They have a free and paid version (paid has more features).