Motion sensors extends the Generic Sensor API to expose a set of low-level and fusion sensors. This feature includes JS interfaces representing accelerometers, linear acceleration sensors, gyroscopes, absolute orientation sensors and relative orientation sensors.

Demo

• https://intel.github.io/generic-sensor-demos/

Documentation

• https://www.w3.org/TR/generic-sensor/
• https://w3c.github.io/accelerometer/
• https://w3c.github.io/gyroscope/
• https://w3c.github.io/orientation-sensor/
• https://w3c.github.io/motion-sensors/
• https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/sensors-for-the-web

Specification

Specification link

Status: Final published standard: Recommendation, Living Standard, Candidate Recommendation, or similar final form

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>Sensor

Implementation status: Enabled by default (tracking bug)

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web Developers: Positive

Owners

• alexander.shalamov@intel.com
• mikhail.pozdnyakov@intel.com

Last updated on 2021-03-12