Pan/Tilt support for Camera

Category: WebRTC
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 87)
Intent stage: Prepare to ship

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Spec maturity: Incubation
Web Platform Tests: No

WPT details: Crbug: https://crbug.com/706434 WPT link: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/tree/master/mediacapture-image Feature specific tests are updated in https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/1508519

Summary

This feature allows developers to pan and tilt the camera using media constraints in getUserMedia(). https://w3c.github.io/mediacapture-image/#dom-mediatracksupportedconstraints-pan https://w3c.github.io/mediacapture-image/#dom-mediatrackcapabilities-tilt

Motivation

Many cameras have the ability to pan and tilt which is specially useful in the video conferencing(WebRTC), like steering the camera to the speaker, etc. Chrome has been using a private extension to satisfy this use case. Implementing this feature will allow developers to use this feature in a standards-compliant manner using media constraints in getUserMedia().

Standards & signals

Specification: https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-image/
Firefox: No signal
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: http://crbug.com/934063

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=mediacapture-image
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+Pan%2FTilt%20support%20for%20Camera
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=Pan%2FTilt%20support%20for%20Camera
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=Pan%2FTilt%20support%20for%20Camera

Docs: https://web.dev/camera-pan-tilt-zoom/

Samples: https://ptz.glitch.me/ https://github.com/riju/WebCamera/tree/master/samples/panTilt https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/getusermedia/pan-tilt-zoom/

Explainers: https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-image/blob/master/ptz-explainer.md

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