DeviceOrientationControl does not work on Firefox mobile

[copyhold]

Seems like axes are mixed up and screen orientation not identified as well.

[WestLangley]

Can you provide a test case, along with the information requested in "How to report a bug" in the guidelines?

[copyhold]

Mobile LG G2, Firefox 35.0, three.js v0.0.70
running misc_controls_deviceorientation.html
in portrait all works good but in landscape scene rotates in wrong directions when turning the device and also scene is not rotated to be in normal plane.
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[mrdoob]

This also happens in Chrome.
I think the solution is to use screen.orientation.lock( 'any' ).

[copyhold]

could you explain, please.
Looks like screen.orientation.lock( 'any' ) only works in full screen mode

[mrdoob]

Oh really?! Meh...

[mjsibbald]

Did anybody ever fix this? Still having this problem in Firefox (Android). Tried the lock thing but ended up with a black screen.

[Cy-Bo-Rg]

It works perfectly on my android device , GT-P3110 , with stock browser 4.1.2 with rev72dev and it works with Firefox Beta 40 (which is the latest version, try to update it) , same revision.
I've tested rev71master too, it works on Firefox Beta 40.
But I have to say that gyroscopes aren't perfect at all, that's expectable(imo).

[mjsibbald]

Really? Just tested the example and it has this weird effect when I put it in landscape.... it's all off.
Beta 40: http://threejs.org/examples/#misc_controls_deviceorientation
Same effect copyhold was describing.

[mjsibbald]

note 4 btw, lollipop

[Cy-Bo-Rg]

http://image.slidesharecdn.com/gyroscopeaccelerometer-120513150504-phpapp02/95/better-motion-control-using-accelerometergyroscope-sensor-fusion-9-728.jpg?cb=1336921613

http://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleCardboard/comments/2k73gz/combating_gyro_drift_with_a_complementary_filter/

That's common; some engineers say that the combination of gyroscope and accelerometer together may help to prevent such problems.
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-40409-2_34

[mjsibbald]

I think we misunderstand eachother. It's al working just fine in Chrome 44 and 45. But in firefox even in beta 40. when you rotate to landscape. The webgl/canvas is not rotated, and the deviceorientation is all still thinking the webgl is in portrait.

Not talking about drift or that the rotation seems to be acting weird.

"in portrait all works good but in landscape scene rotates in wrong directions when turning the device and also scene is not rotated to be in normal plane."

[Cy-Bo-Rg]

I've understood your problem now; the demo isn't supposed to be used with "screen orientation" activated, which destroys the current rendering view and prevents that it gets updated further(at least with this demo).
That might be considered an issue to some extent, but imagine a flight simulator as an example; would you prefer to have a fixed view when using the gyroscope as a controller or would you like it to accidentally rotate your view when you rotate +90°/-90° ? I'll prefer to keep my view as it is while the world rotates.

[mjsibbald]

ok lets presume you are right. There is still a difference between Chrome and Firefox. And how would one get the same response in both browsers. Thats all I'm after. As mr.doob labeled this as an bug, I was just wondering if somebody fixed it.

Thanks for thinking with me, dont get me wrong.