Thanks to a few helpful tips on the previous post about Cutexture, I have been able to significantly improve performance with the latest updates. See below a short screencast of the Google ball pool experiment website embedded into a Ogre3D texture which is shown as the User Interface.
As before, the code can be found at Github.
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