A gyroscope alone does not tell you which compass direction a camera was facing. It measures motion/rotation, but without an external reference it cannot determine absolute heading.

To record pointing direction, a camera would need a compass-like sensor (magnetometer), not just a gyro. Some GPS-equipped cameras can also record orientation data, but this is not universal, and compass/heading data is not something you should assume every camera writes into EXIF.

Orientation is more commonly recorded as camera rotation (portrait/landscape), often via accelerometers. That is different from compass direction.

For position, GPS is still the main reference. If you want tracking when GPS is unavailable, the next step is inertial navigation: combining accelerometers/gyros with the last known GPS fix. Some cameras have offered variants of this for limited indoor/dead-reckoning use, but it is not a true replacement for GPS and tends to drift over time.

So in short: some cameras can record orientation, a few may supplement GPS with inertial sensing, but absolute pointing direction and highly accurate non-GPS positional tracking are not standard camera features.