They're here! They're here!

It's been a long road, but there is actually a lot of new stuff under-the-hood for these new versions. First off, we've adding support for GPS-based devices, such as the MaxQData GPS and GPS+Accelerometer (Quantum) devices. This means that we've also adapted our car path mapping code to take incoming GPS data and provide a similar level of analysis that you get with accelerometer-based data acquisition: you get a path map that highlights your successes — and failures — at maximizing your speed on the course. However, if you have position data from a GPS, you can now click a button at the top of the map and have the path map display the actual position data with the acceleration data. We've also added the ability to smooth incoming data when that data has significant known error-per-sample (such as the GPS limit of 10 meters of error per sample).

We've added the ability to record GPS data directly into AXAnalyst, although we strongly recommend recording to a computer that uses an SSD instead of a regular hard disk (hard disks can be damaged by the movement of the car, since the hard disk drive head literally floats above the hard drive disk and the movement of the car can cause the hard drive head to literally crash into the hard drive disk, destroying the data on that disk).

We've also modified much of the user interface to make things easier and faster.

Internally, we've added the ability to take what is called "unleveled" 3-D accelerometer data (X-Y-Z), and from that determine what is "down," what is "forward," and what is "left" for that run. We also can determine if the accelerometer has been set up "backwards" (forwards is backwards, left is right) and automatically correct the display of that data!

In addition, we've added some more "smarts" to the artificial intelligence of the analysis, so we can recognize more good and bad behaviors, and let you know that they need to be corrected. We've also added saving and restoring of session info, so when you re-open the session, you get back what you last saw.

AXAnalyst+Video gets better data overlays for video, the ability to use the ffmpeg tool (available separately, due to licensing restrictions) to convert video to a format QuickTime™ can use, and now includes the option of displaying analog gauges for speed and RPM on the data-overlaid video.

You can download the new versions here: AXAnalyst and AXAnalyst+Video