Google another step closer to Chrome OS with Device Orientation Plumbing

So, the Developers are working on this device orientation technology, using which the browser will understand how the device is behind held. This technology, Device Orientation Plumbing, is being built in the webkit engine which powers Chrome and Safari. I don't think the primary aim of inclusion is to make sure if you are able to read properly while your tablet/laptop/mobile is tilted, but this will give a boon to online gaming.

Imagine driving a car by using your mobile phone/tablet as a stearing or playing some kind of game involving rolling marbles on your browser. Note carefully, I am talking about the browser here. Although Firefox 3.6 supports the orientation technology, it has hardly been used(Please let me know if anyone has utilitized this capability).

An interesting thing to note is that this brings Google's dream of making a complete browser based operating system another step closer. Hardware acceleration is now available for the Browsers(Remember the quake II for browsers using WebGL and HTML5?). So, when you think about it, if bandwidth is not an issue, online gaming could reach a whole new level using these technologies.

Google already has an excellent cloud computing infrastructure, a lot of native APIs are being made available to browsers and with web technologies improving at a good pace - HTML5, CSS3 etc. Google placing its bet on cloud orientation looks like a good move now.