Thanks for asking and presenting your arguments! We agree it would be more akin to real biking. For discussion sake, the reasons we haven't gone there yet are
1. To make all VZfit games decelerate the same way, by slower pedaling. If we were to allow you to coast, we'd need to devote a button for braking, and that could be harder to control without being analog. Counter argument: It might be worth trying at least in the cycle games.
2. Most stationary bikes have flywheels attached directly to the pedals, so you can't stop pedaling and coast. Only very high end stationary bikes, and real bikes on trainers, support such coasting. Counter argument: More people are using VZfit on bikes with trainers (hopefully with the front fork stabilizers we recommend for safe leaning!)
3. As you say, we wanted VZfit to always motivate pedaling, not just on flats and up hills. And we already simulate gear shifting to maintain constant resistance, so you have to pedal more to go the same speed up hills and pedal less to go down them. Counter argument: Pedaling less downhills still isn't as realistic as coasting, which can take you out of VR immersion.
Would love to get more opinions and thoughts on this, and we'd be happy to try out button braking to see how it feels.
1. To make all VZfit games decelerate the same way, by slower pedaling. If we were to allow you to coast, we'd need to devote a button for braking, and that could be harder to control without being analog. Counter argument: It might be worth trying at least in the cycle games.
2. Most stationary bikes have flywheels attached directly to the pedals, so you can't stop pedaling and coast. Only very high end stationary bikes, and real bikes on trainers, support such coasting. Counter argument: More people are using VZfit on bikes with trainers (hopefully with the front fork stabilizers we recommend for safe leaning!)
3. As you say, we wanted VZfit to always motivate pedaling, not just on flats and up hills. And we already simulate gear shifting to maintain constant resistance, so you have to pedal more to go the same speed up hills and pedal less to go down them. Counter argument: Pedaling less downhills still isn't as realistic as coasting, which can take you out of VR immersion.
Would love to get more opinions and thoughts on this, and we'd be happy to try out button braking to see how it feels.