For travelling consultants and the firms that employ them

Work on your laptop in moving vehicles.
Comfortably.

Ambling Ride is a peripheral motion-cue overlay for Windows laptops. The same idea Apple shipped for iPhone in 2024, now built for the laptops your consultants actually carry.

Talk to us How it works

Move your cursor. In a moving car or train, those dots would react to the vehicle instead. That is what Ambling Ride gives your eyes.

The problem

Chances are, about half your team struggle to work in transit.

~65 %

of passengers report symptoms when reading or working on a screen in a moving vehicle (Schmidt et al., 2020, peer-reviewed survey of 4,268 adults). Electric vehicles and long train rides make it worse.

6–12 %

are affected so strongly that productive screen work during transit is not a realistic option for them (Sivak & Schoettle, UMTRI 2015, six-country survey of 3,200 adults).

2.1×

Women are roughly twice as likely as men to suffer motion sickness in vehicles (Schmidt et al., 2020; corroborated across the carsickness literature).

How it works

Your phone is the sensor. A transparent overlay on the laptop. That is the whole product.

1

Connect your phone

The phone you already carry becomes the motion sensor. It detects acceleration, braking, and cornering and streams it to the laptop over a direct local connection. No extra hardware, no cloud account.

2

Peripheral cues appear

A transparent overlay sits on top of whatever the consultant is working on. Subtle peripheral dots react to braking, cornering, and acceleration.

3

The mismatch closes

The brain stops fighting the inner ear, because the eyes finally see motion that matches what the body feels. It feels calmer, and you keep working.

What it looks like

Ambling Ride running over a PowerPoint deck during a real ride. The peripheral dots track the car's motion in the corners of the screen.

Fully customisable: colour, size, number of dots, opacity, and reactivity. A flat 2D peripheral-edge mode is also selectable, the same style Apple uses on iOS.

Why it works

Sensory-conflict theory, productised. Apple validated the principle for iPhone in 2024. Ambling Ride is the same principle for Windows.

Motion sickness happens when what your eyes see disagrees with what your inner ear feels. Looking at a stationary laptop screen in a moving vehicle, the inner ear says «I am accelerating», the eyes say «I am not». The brain interprets that conflict as poisoning and triggers nausea.

Adding subtle peripheral motion to the visual field that matches the inner ear closes the loop. Karjanto et al. (2018) demonstrated this with on-road studies in instrumented vehicles. Apple shipped exactly this principle as Vehicle Motion Cues in iOS 18 in 2024.

Apple covers iPhones, iPads, and the latest Macs. It does not cover Windows laptops, which is the hardware most consulting firms in DACH still issue. Ambling Ride fills that gap by turning the phone every consultant already carries into the sensor, streaming its motion to a lightweight overlay on the laptop.

Peer-reviewed references

Karjanto et al. (2018) «The effect of peripheral visual feedforward system in enhancing situation awareness and mitigating motion sickness in fully automated driving». Transportation Research Part F.
Schmidt et al. (2020) «An international survey on the incidence and modulating factors of carsickness». Transportation Research Part F.
Kuiper, Bos & Diels (2018) «Looking forward: in-vehicle auxiliary display positioning affects carsickness». Applied Ergonomics.
Diels & Bos (2016) «Self-driving carsickness». Applied Ergonomics.
Apple (2024) iOS 18 Vehicle Motion Cues feature.

Try it on iPhone first

Try the iPhone version, in any moving vehicle.

Apple shipped Vehicle Motion Cues in iOS 18. Same sensory-conflict principle, same peripheral-cue approach. If your consultants carry an iPhone, the fastest way to understand what Ambling Ride does is to feel Apple's version for yourself in a moving car. We highly recommend it.

Apple's Vehicle Motion Cues, recorded on iPhone running iOS 18.

How to turn it on

1 Open Settings on the iPhone.
2 Go to Accessibility › Motion.
3 Set Show Vehicle Motion Cues to On to try it immediately, or to Automatic so iOS turns it on whenever it detects you are in a moving vehicle.
4 Take a five-minute taxi or train ride and read something on the phone. Try it with the cues on, then off. The difference is hard to unsee.

The dots appear in your peripheral vision and react to acceleration, braking, and cornering. Your eyes finally see motion that matches what the inner ear feels. The conflict closes, and working on the screen feels comfortable again.

Ambling Ride is the same idea, built for the Windows laptops your consultants actually carry.

Alternatives

What else can your consultants do today? Honestly, not much.

	Ambling Ride	Anti-carsickness drugs	Apple VMC	Look out the window
No drowsiness	yes	no	yes	yes
Works on Windows	yes	yes	no	yes
Keep working	yes	no	yes	no
Enterprise IT deployable	yes	n/a	OS-bound	n/a

For your IT team

We want this to be the easiest yes for your IT team.

Adding any new software to a consulting firm's laptop image is a slow, careful conversation. We know.

We will share whatever your IT team asks for and adapt to your review process. The conversation does not need to be fast, it needs to be transparent.

› Runs on your own devices. Motion data stays on the phone and the laptop. No cloud account.
› No admin rights needed to run after install.
› Deployment your way. Direct download, the App Store for the iPhone app, or your own Intune or Company Portal for the laptop app.
› Data processing agreement, ready to sign. A GDPR Art. 28 agreement is drafted and can be signed before the first install. Sample available on request.
› System requirements. Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and an iPhone on iOS 17 or newer.

Founder

Why I built this.

Aaron Pütting

Founder

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During my time in consulting, the same problem came up on every trip. Cab to the airport, train ride, late client visit. Colleagues would try to read a deck, try to answer email, then put the laptop away because they felt queasy. The hour was gone.

When iOS 18 shipped Vehicle Motion Cues in 2024, I watched friends with iPhones use the feature on real journeys. They could read again. They could work again. The same friends who had given up on getting anything done in a moving car were suddenly fine. The principle was real, and Apple had productised it.

But Apple covered iPhones. My consulting friends carried Windows laptops issued by their firms. There was no version of this for them. So I built one. Ambling Ride uses the phone already in their pocket as the sensor and a transparent overlay on the laptop, bringing the same idea to any Windows machine, so the next time a consultant rides to the airport, the work hour does not have to be lost.

The name

Why “Ambling”

Horses have a gait called the amble. It is a four-beat walk that moves one side of the body at a time, so the rider sits still while the horse covers ground. Before paved roads, the horses bred to amble were the ones people chose for long journeys.

We named the app after it. Your car still moves, but the screen shows your eyes what your inner ear already feels, and the ride stops working against you.

Pricing

Licensing that fits how your firm travels.

One licence covers the laptop overlay and the iPhone companion. The cue runs on the consultant's laptop and uses the phone they already carry as the motion sensor, so a licensed team is ready to go from day one.

Terms are agreed individually and scaled to how many of your consultants actually travel.

Licensing

Agreed with your firm

scaled to how many consultants travel

Volume and term discounts available. One line on one invoice, annually.

Common questions

FAQ

What data leaves the laptop?

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No motion data. Sensor readings and acceleration patterns are processed on the phone and laptop and are never sent to us. Separately, and only if you switch it on, the app can send anonymous usage statistics such as connection errors and how long the cues were active. It is off unless you agree to it, can be turned off again at any time, and anything sent is processed on servers in Germany.

Will it work with our IT setup?

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Local-only by design, and there is more than one way in. Consultants can download it and install it themselves without admin rights, or your IT can push it to the whole fleet through Intune or your Company Portal so nobody touches an installer at all. The iPhone half comes from the App Store like any other app. We provide whatever documentation your review process needs.

What about Mac users?

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Newer Macs get Vehicle Motion Cues from Apple directly, so they need nothing from us. For older Macs that Apple's feature no longer reaches, we are building a Ambling Ride version, though it sits behind Windows in our priorities.

How long does setup take per consultant?

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Open the app on the phone, click connect once on the laptop, calibrate for two seconds. From start to working cues in under a minute.

Do I need any extra hardware?

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No. The iPhone each consultant already carries is the sensor. Its built-in motion sensors read the vehicle's movement and stream it to the laptop overlay, so there is nothing to buy, carry, or lose. It currently needs an iPhone on iOS 17 or newer; an Android version is in development.

Does this also help in trains and electric cars?

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Cars are what Ambling Ride is tuned for today, electric ones included. EVs in particular cause more motion sickness than combustion cars, because of their smooth but unfamiliar acceleration curves. Trains are a different problem: they move far more gently, and the slow sway that makes reading uncomfortable there is much subtler than anything a car produces. We are working on detecting it, and we would rather say that plainly than claim something we have not yet proven.

Work on your laptop in moving vehicles. Comfortably.