- From: Kostiainen, Anssi <anssi.kostiainen@intel.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:32:48 +0000
- To: Device and Sensors Working Group <public-device-apis@w3.org>
- CC: "Shalamov, Alexander" <alexander.shalamov@intel.com>, "Pozdnyakov, Mikhail" <mikhail.pozdnyakov@intel.com>, "Bhaumik, Rijubrata" <rijubrata.bhaumik@intel.com>
Hi All, > On 01 Jul 2016, at 15:44, Kostiainen, Anssi <anssi.kostiainen@intel.com> wrote: > > I'm excited to announce two new APIs that join the family of concrete sensors built atop the Generic Sensor API framework: > > Accelerometer Sensor > https://w3c.github.io/accelerometer/ > > Gyroscope Sensor > https://w3c.github.io/gyroscope/ > > (To complement these two, we're also drafting a spec for the Magnetometer Sensor that will follow up shortly.) An initial Magnetometer Sensor draft is now out too: Magnetometer Sensor https://w3c.github.io/magnetometer/ > The high-level Device Orientation API decomposes into these three low-level sensors: Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Magnetometer. Following the Extensible Web Manifesto principles, we now expose these primitives to web developers to enable more advanced use cases. > > To ensure these specs reflect reality, we're working on Chromium implementation of these sensors in parallel and will use the implementation feedback to improve the specifications, see: > > https://crrev.com/2051083002 > > Feedback on the specs is welcome via GitHub issues: > > https://github.com/w3c/accelerometer/ > https://github.com/w3c/gyroscope/ > > See also the group's sensor roadmap: > > https://www.w3.org/2009/dap/#sensors > > Thanks Alexander and Mikhail for volunteering to edit these new specifications with me -- and welcome to the happy family of spec editors! Special thanks to Tobie for the framework that has proven to be very extensible. Thanks, -Anssi
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