Recording Types
Standard Recording
Captures the g-forces of rides and roller coasters. Provides stats and graphs of g-forces in three dimensions.
- Records force data from accelerometer
- Requires motion tracking permissions
Advanced Recording
In addition to capturing the force data of a standard recording advanced recording captures rider orientation, GPS data, and weather conditions. This reveals additional ride information including: identifying airtime/hangtime, inversions, orientation angles, a map of ride location, temperature, wind speed, and wind direction.
A Ride Forces Pro subscription is required to capture advanced recordings. Advanced recordings can be viewed, edited, and shared with or without a subscription.
- Records force data using multiple sensors including accelerometer and gyroscope
- Records GPS data
- Records weather conditions (requires internet connection)
- Requires location and motion tracking permissions
- Records for a maximum of 15 minutes
- Advanced recording will fallback to standard recording if the app is closed while recording
Ride Processing
When a recording ends the app analyzes the captured data to create and save rides.
- Recordings must be at least 10 seconds long
- Individual rides store a maximum of 10 minutes of data
- Rides are detected within each recording by finding portions of prolonged movement that have forces exceeding 2 g
- If no rides are detected the whole recording is saved (up to the first 10 minutes)
- The iPhone app can detect and save multiple rides per recording
- The Apple Watch app saves only one ride per recording