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[emalafeew]

Thanks for the encouragement and great ideas!

When the user created rides are listed, I can see how many times I've tried each one, but I was curious as to how to find out which user created rides had the actual most rides from the VzFit community to make it easier to sort the best ones to try out, perhaps by adding an option for upvoting certain rides (perhaps this function exists but I couldn't find it).

With more shared rides we'll be focusing on better tools to rate and search them, probably in the next sprint. The Explore Rides->Popular list is sorted simply by total spins, but is heavily weighted toward older suggested rides because of that. Until we have ratings in game, we created this "Ride Review" forum but people have to know to go there and leave reviews and ratings! If you have a few favorites do that now ;->

https://forums.vzfit.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=8

Also, not sure if this is easily done or not, but since you know how many km each route is, I thought it would be cool if you had the option to add an overlay on or virtual sign post that shows certain distance landmarks (ie.  1 mile mark, or 1 km mark (for metric)) so it provides additional motivation to keep going.    Having run a few 10km runs, I always find it motivational to see sign posts either ahead of me, or on the ground that tell me how far I've gone.

That's a great idea for overlaying in Explorer, going on the backlog.

Also, I thought it would be funny if when you do take a break to stop riding, either to grab a drink of water, and stop pedaling, that there could be an optional user animation feature could show your avatar doing the same during these pauses (so that the animated character looks like he/she is stopping for a water break).     Nintendo / other gaming platforms have mastered the idea of avatar mimicking that have led to their popularity over the years (think Wii fit etc).

This is a great polish feature that Pete our artist will enjoy doing! Note we're also interested in adding avatar upgrades to Explorer.

Perhaps from a workout perspective the VZfit explorer could also incorporate sprint timers like they have in the VZFit play so that during a ride, you could use your trainer mode and have timed sprints with overlay goals.   I realize that you already have a really great platform with the cowboy riding game on VzFit play and also the other games, but just thought that integrating live scenery or background would be cool.   

We're open to game ideas in Explorer as long as they doesn't overwhelm the interface. What you just said reminds me of Strava's segment challenges--displaying those right in Explorer would be awesome!

As another idea for a new game, you could also add a riding game where the user is riding to avoid Zombies chasing them and use the controller as a zapper to eliminate as you're speeding past them.   I think this would be popular if you had additional weapons the longer you rode, speed boost options along the way, perhaps to ride towards safe zones for breaks, and that would really add an optional arcade experience, that would be cool.   

Becker College has a student-made Zombie game on PC VR like this--we've encouraged them to port to Go/Quest and release it!

Another gaming option would be to add a space themed game where riding, would put you in the cockpit of a plane or jet fighter to give a VR experience, or perhaps a train like experience game where your pedalling powers a steam locomotive on a scenery tour.  If you did a train like game, scenery packs could be added for different seasons, winter, summer, fall, spring etc.   This could be extended to a bullet train animation depending on how fast you pedal to give a VR experience.   Again these are just random ideas - which you can incorporate if you're interested.

We've made some prototypes, but they need a _lot_ of terrain to fly & speed through! I worked on cockpit sims for years so hopefully we'll get there.

If there's a way to incorporate a video feed from youtube in a certain mode by streaming VR scenery in a different mode so you can just ride along to it and pause / stop as required that would be a cool integration (I can do this through the Quest / Go Youtube App as well but it doesn't track my fitness stats that way).

We have something in mind, but it may be a few sprints away...

VzFit alone is enough reason to buy an Oculus Go headset, and you're definitely making a difference during these challenging times with COVID-19 and all the stay-at-home orders and making working out at home at least fun for all.

Keep up the great work!  Loving the updates!

Shout it from the rooftops!