iPad screen sharing
Consider this scenario: a mom and her kids are reading a single book using iPad. The mom is on a business trip and kids stay at home. Each of them has a iPad. The mom hopes that when she turns to next page the kids' iPad can do the same thing so they are always on the same page.
Any idea how to do that?
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In order to accomplish this we need the following components:
A VNC server running on the children's iPads. VNC basically shares screen over the network. A VNC for iOS is called Veency and it's available in Cydia once the iPad is jailbroken.
A VNC client. I recommend iTeleport - works and feels great.
Since Children's iPads are probably with a fake (NAT-ed) ip, we should somehow connect to the home network. A VPN server on the gateway should do the trick. Once connected to the vpn server, the mother's iPad should see all devices in the home network.
Once connected to the children's iPad via VNC, you'll be able to see everything the kid sees on the screen. This can be accomplished also from computer or iphone.
If the mom uses a computer rather than an iPad, you can easily do this with Google Plus:
- The mom should initiate a hangout session with the child on the web version of Google Plus from her computer.
- The child accepts the hangout invite using the Google Plus iPad app.
- The mom can then choose to broadcast her screen's contents rather than what her video camera is recording.
- She then opens up a reading application on her computer such as Amazon's Kindle reading app.
The child should be able to see exactly what the mom is seeing on her screen, while at the same time being able to hear her voice.
The problem with both parties using iPad's is that Apple's SDK prevents applications from capturing images of the screen outside of that application. If this is a necessity, then the only hope would be to jailbreak the iPad and find a solution that let's you do that.
The only other way is if you had an application which had both an e-book reader and screen sharing capabilities into it. The most popular e-book applications (iBooks, Amazon Kindle, etc.) don't have such a feature at this time.