you can use your phone as a steering wheel using its motion sensors

If we already have the possibility of using our Android phone as a controller in Stadia, soon they will be able use the same terminal motion sensors to enjoy another experience for your favorite games on the streaming platform. In other words, you can put the phone in a horizontal position to use it as a steering wheel for some car racing simulators.

Use your phone as a steering wheel in Stadia

A sensor like the gyroscope will allow us to transform our Android phone into flying itself for so play games where we need that precision in turn, it does not offer an order button.

Via XDA, and as a source for 9to5Google, when APK exploded view of the application on Android, references to a new type of control called “Device Motion” have been discovered. This means that in addition to being able to connect a command or to use the mobile as oneself, the Stadia application will allow you to use the motion sensors of your Android phone; so you can add games like Riders Republic to cycle down a mountain.

Of course, it must be specified that the movement controls They differ a bit from what we are used to. The app will translate motion into keystrokes on a virtual controller that will allow games to be played with motion controls without developers having to support them. In other words, Stadia racing games can be played with the Wii-like controls in Nintendo’s Mario Kart.

What’s interesting is that Google has included the code so you can customize the experience if desired by third-party developers, and adjusts the virtual controller experience to make it easier to control our favorite games on the platform.

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