Motion Sensor Modules with Dynamic Protocol Support for Communications with a Computing Device

A system having a sense module and a computing device. The sensor module has an inertial measurement unit to generate 3D inputs. The sensor module can map the 3D inputs to 2D inputs and transmit the 3D inputs and 2D inputs using separate protocols simultaneously, such as a universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter protocol and a human device interface protocol. The 2D inputs can be processed via default drivers of a typical operation system and thus can be used without customization of a host computing device. The 3D inputs can be processed via a custom driver or tool designed for the computing device. When the custom tool is available, the computing device can instruct the sensor module to stop transmitting via the 2D protocol. Otherwise, the transmitting via the 3D protocol can be stopped without reboot or restarting the computing device and/or the sensor module.