Gyroscope API

Variable: Gyroscope

Type: [IGyroscope | undefined]

Interface: IGyroscope

The Gyroscope API provides access to the angular velocity data measured by the hardware sensor.

A Gyroscope is a sensor that measures a device's angular velocity along 3 orthogonal axes x, y and z.

• The x axis is parallel to the device's screen, aligned with the top and bottom edges, in the left-to-right direction.
• The y axis is parallel to the device's screen, aligned with the left and right edges, in the bottom-to-top direction.
• The z axis is perpendicular to the device's screen, pointing up.

The sign of angular velocities follows the 'right hand rule'. A positive angular velocity along an axis corresponds to the curling direction of the fingers of a right hand, with the thumb pointing in the direction of the axis.

Read the Gyroscope Sensor Guide for further information.

import { Gyroscope } from "gyroscope";

if (Gyroscope) {
   console.log("This device has a Gyroscope!");
   const gyroscope = new Gyroscope({ frequency: 1 });
   gyroscope.addEventListener("reading", () => {
     console.log(
      `Gyroscope Reading: \
        timestamp=${gyroscope.timestamp}, \
        [${gyroscope.x}, \
        ${gyroscope.y}, \
        ${gyroscope.z}]`
     );
   });
   gyroscope.start();
} else {
   console.log("This device does NOT have a Gyroscope!");
}

Properties

readonly activated

boolean

Flag that indicates if the sensor is activated or not. When a sensor is created, the sensor is not activated, thus the initial value of this property equals false.

onactivate

((this: Sensor, event: Event) => any) or undefined

Event handler that is called when the sensor is activated.

onerror

((this: Sensor, event: SensorErrorEvent) => any) or undefined

Event handler that is called when an error occurs. When an error occurs, the sensor is automatically stopped, and the activated property equals false.

onreading

((this: Sensor, event: Event) => any) or undefined

Event handler that is called whenever a new reading is available.

readonly readings

BatchedGyroscopeReading or undefined

New in SDK 2.0

Interface: BatchedGyroscopeReading

New in SDK 2.0

Properties

readonly timestamp

Uint32Array

readonly x

Float32Array

readonly y

Float32Array

readonly z

Float32Array

Interface: GyroscopeReading

Angular velocities measured by the Gyroscope sensor.

Properties

readonly timestamp

number or null

Timestamp of the reading in milliseconds.

NOTE: this is relative to an unspecified arbitrary 0 time, or null if no reading is available (when the sensor is not yet activated and there are no valid cached values that can be used).

readonly x

number or null

Angular velocity around the x axis in rad/s

readonly y

number or null

Angular velocity around the y axis in rad/s

readonly z

number or null

Angular velocity around the z axis in rad/s

Globals API

Haptics API