Gyroscope support

[arathael]

How about detecting gyroscope for natural rotation sliding?

[pisi]

Very nice suggestion indeed! I'm however afraid, that such hardware values are not yet available to Javascript in browsers (but I may as well be mistaken, please correct me if so). I will therefore label this ticket as unlikely and we will see what the future will bring in terms of browsers' accelerator APIs.

However in a PhoneGap (or similar) situation, it should already be possible to bind the accelerometer to Reel control events like "frameChange".

[arathael]

In fact, this info is already available to javascript in browsers. I used your reel plugin in here (http://www.adidas360.com/player-65.html) and take a look at the code and the page in iOS with gyroscope (iPad2 or iPhone 4/4s)

[pisi]

Interesting 8) Thanks for making me aware of this! Well, feature it is then ;)

[pisi]

Ok, so I've added orientable option, which is disabled (false) by default. When enabled (true) and on a compatible device, it will tie the alpha angle (compass) to Reel's fraction value.

Code is available in gyroscope branch for testing.

However, this support is very preliminary and basic shall I say. More configuration is required to work well with non-looping panos and to enable the same for the vertical axis too.

[pisi]

Merged into development branch awaiting release in version 1.3