Open-Source Spatial Navigation for Smart TVs: Norigin Media’s 2025 Innovation Award Nominee

Norigin Spatial Navigation has been nominated for a 2025 Streaming Media Innovation Award. Built specifically for CTVs, Smart TVs, and STBs, Norigin Spatial Navigation, the open-source directional navigation library, solves one of the most overlooked challenges in multiscreen and CTV development: seamless and intuitive directional navigation using remote controls.

The library is freely available on GitHub and actively maintained, with a developer-centric focus on performance, reliability, and modularity. Designed supporting any Javascript framework, it enables effortless focus management and directional navigation across complex TV app interfaces, an area typically underserved by traditional UI frameworks.

It is widely being used to build TV apps that run across platforms like Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Android TV, and more. Click here to vote Norigin Spatial Navigation for Streaming Innovation of the year.

Why It’s Innovative

While app navigation is taken for granted on web and mobile, TV interfaces require precise and responsive remote control-based input systems. Most developers struggle to implement these from scratch or are forced to use bloated frameworks. Norigin Spatial Navigation addresses this gap with:

• Intelligent Focus Management: Automatically calculates focusable elements based on directional input (up/down/left/right).
• High Performance: Lightweight and optimised for fast rendering across a variety of devices.
• Customizability: Developers can fine-tune focus behavior, group elements logically, and handle edge cases intuitively.

Market Impact

We built Norigin Spatial Navigation initially for our own TV App SDK, but seeing its broader relevance, we open-sourced it for the developer community. The high number of weekly downloads in 2025 suggests that it’s becoming an industry standard for remote-controlled app development.

With traction from startups, major broadcasters, and smart TV app developers, Norigin Spatial Navigation is becoming a vital component in the CTV developer toolkit.

Key Achievements

•  ~30,000 NPM Weekly Downloads: A 38% growth in recent weeks indicates accelerating adoption across the global developer community.
• Lightweight & Framework Agnostic: Although optimized for React-based apps, the library is adaptable to most frontend frameworks, making it broadly applicable.
  
  
• Specifically Built for TV App Use-Cases: Unlike other navigation libraries, Norigin Spatial Navigation is engineered for 10-foot UIs and directional input logic.
  
  
• Community Impact and Open Adoption: Originally developed to power Norigin Media’s own TV App SDK, the library was open-sourced to benefit the broader developer community. Since then, it has appeared in TV developer tutorials, GitHub integrations, and several blog articles. Its usage is increasing dramatically, despite minimal promotion, indicating strong word-of-mouth validation.
  

Norigin Spatial Navigation embodies the spirit of innovation by solving a niche yet critical UI problem with an elegant, open-source solution. As the industry shifts towards more sophisticated FAST, OTT, and multiscreen experiences, empowering developers with such tools is essential to industry innovation.

We believe this contribution to the open-source community and TV tech ecosystem merits recognition in the 2025 Streaming Media Europe Innovation Awards. Click here to vote.

FAQs

•  What is Norigin Spatial Navigation?
  Norigin Spatial Navigation is an open-source JavaScript library designed for Smart TVs and CTVs, enabling seamless directional navigation with remote controls across 10-foot UIs.
• Which platforms support Norigin Spatial Navigation?
  It supports TV app development for platforms including Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Android TV, and other CTV operating systems.
  
  
• Which platforms support Norigin Spatial Navigation?
  It supports TV app development for platforms including Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Android TV, and other CTV operating systems.
  
  
• Is Norigin Spatial Navigation open source?
  Yes, it is fully open-source and available on GitHub, with active maintenance and community adoption.Contact Us
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