Orientation Sensor

The AbsoluteOrientationSensor and RelativeOrientationSensor APIs describe the physical orientation of a device in three-dimensional space, either in relation to the Earth's coordinate system or in relation to the device's own orientation, respectively.

Baseline Status: This feature is currently Limited and is missing in at least one major browser engine.

Desktop Browser Engine Support

Google Chrome

67

Supported

Mozilla Firefox

—

Unsupported

Apple Safari

—

Unsupported

Microsoft Edge

79

Supported

Mobile Browser Engine Support

Chrome Android

67

Firefox Android

—

Safari iOS

—

Specifications and References

Specification ↗ Specification ↗ Feature XML ↗

MDN Browser Compat Data Keys:

api.AbsoluteOrientationSensor ↗ api.AbsoluteOrientationSensor.AbsoluteOrientationSensor ↗ api.OrientationSensor ↗ api.OrientationSensor.populateMatrix ↗ api.OrientationSensor.quaternion ↗ api.RelativeOrientationSensor ↗ api.RelativeOrientationSensor.RelativeOrientationSensor ↗ api.Sensor ↗ api.Sensor.activate_event ↗ api.Sensor.activated ↗ api.Sensor.error_event ↗ api.Sensor.hasReading ↗ api.Sensor.reading_event ↗ api.Sensor.start ↗ api.Sensor.stop ↗ api.Sensor.timestamp ↗ api.SensorErrorEvent ↗ api.SensorErrorEvent.SensorErrorEvent ↗ api.SensorErrorEvent.error ↗