BigRingVR 8.0.0.914 released — What's New

160 builds since 8.0.0.754. Here's what you'll notice.

🔗 1. A queued route can now be ONE Strava activity

Some of our courses are published in parts — Liège–Bastogne–Liège is three. You could always queue them and ride them back to back. Now they can arrive in Strava as one ride too — as long as each part ends within 50 metres of where the next one begins. That's the rule, and it's there so the merged map follows a real route instead of teleporting between two places you were never between.

Where the parts do join, we ask once at the start whether to send them to Strava, TrainingPeaks and intervals.icu as a single activity. Say yes and you get one continuous ride. Each part is still saved to BigRingVR on its own, so your results and leaderboard places stay exactly as they are.

The queue builder shows you which parts join — grouped by colour with a bracket down the side — so you can see the shape of your ride before you start, and rearrange it if you want.

We check the 50 metres again against what you actually rode, so if you cut a part short the map still matches where you went.

🎨 2. A third HUD theme — Daylight

Daylight joins Modern and Classic: dark ink on a light panel, at its best in a bright room or against bright video.

The elevation profile got attention too — the Modern profile now sits under a dusk sky so your position marker stands out, and each theme has one colour that means "this is you", used on the profile pin, the map pin and your leaderboard badge.

One key worth knowing while you're in there: press O during a ride to move the metrics and profile over the video, and press it again to dock them below it. Try both and see which you prefer — it takes a second and it changes how the whole screen feels.

Preferences → Ride Experience → Metrics & profile theme

⚡ 3. Smoother

The in-ride map now turns with you. Browsing the catalogue is quicker, the search box keeps up with your typing, and rides with a big field stay smooth.

🪟 4. We added support for Snapdragon / ARM laptops

BigRingVR now installs and runs on Windows-on-ARM machines at full frame rate.

⚠️ One thing to know: these machines have no ANT+ driver, so connect your trainer and sensors over Bluetooth — everything works that way.

⏱️ 5. Lap details

Press L and the pop-up now shows that lap's distance, speed and averages.

🛠️ 6. Also improved

• The app tells you when your trainer or power meter isn't connected, so you know straight away.
• If a sensor isn't answering, the app goes looking for it. This is the one behind "my trainer only connects after I restart BigRingVR".
• Local rides playback bug fixed.
• Your ride is saved intact, and survives a crash mid-ride.
• Uploads are independent — one waiting upload no longer delays the others.
• Downloads check themselves and recover on their own.
• The app starts reliably, even after a bad shutdown.
• Cadence reads zero when you stop pedalling.
• Your left/right pedal balance and HRV are now saved with the ride. Nothing to turn on — if your power meter and strap send them, we keep them. Showing them on the website is next.

⬆️ Updating

• Already on BigRingVR 8.x? You'll get this build automatically — just accept the in-app update prompt.
• Upgrading from BigRingVR 7.x? Please uninstall 7.x first, then follow the install steps in our BigRingVR 8.0 announcement.

⚠️ System requirements: BigRingVR 8 runs on Windows 10/11 (64-bit), including Snapdragon/ARM laptops, and macOS 13 (Ventura) or higher. The Mac build is universal — native on Apple Silicon (M-series) and Intel Macs.

Download the latest version from the download page — Windows (x64 and Snapdragon/ARM), or Mac (Intel & Apple Silicon).

🙏 What would help most from this round

1. Queue two or three parts of a split route and ride them back to back. Say yes to the single-activity question and tell us how the Strava ride looks.
2. Try the Daylight theme — especially if you ride in a bright room.
3. On a Snapdragon laptop? Install it and tell us how it runs. Bluetooth sensors only.
4. If your sensors have ever needed an app restart to connect, tell us whether that still happens.

As always — if anything looks wrong, Preferences → General → Upload Logs to Support right after the ride is worth more than a description.

Thank you all and Cheers!

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