“Our solution also works with iPad, which has no options to connect mouse (iOS does not support mouse). So there is no direct interconnection between tablet, mouse and keyboard,” says Dock2Office’s CTO Leendert van der Plas. “The unique thing we are doing is connecting mouse and keyboard (and additional devices in future) directly to remote computer (through the cloud). Yes, all that effort just so a tablet user can mash some plastic keys. The remote desktop is then linked to the specific Sphinx the user is using (via a code they input), which sends their virtualised mouse and keyboard data back to the hub - which in turn relays it to the remote desktop, and the screen output is then sent back to the tablet so the user’s peripheral inputs are made manifest on the slate. The Sphinx dock, meanwhile, hooks up with the Dock2Office virtual device hub. The tablet itself connects to your remote desktop (on which you’ve installed Dock2Office’s software). While, from a hardware point of view, the Sphinx may look straightforward enough at the end-user end of things - with a tablet propped up on a dock which has a keyboard and mouse plugged in (other peripherals will apparently be supported in future) - the system is doing a lot of data shuffling in the background to turn your tablet into a quasi desktop.
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