[Koliakis]

It feels like this would be the perfect application for something like Geforce Now or even just the Steam streaming service. Provide an interface for users to customize the controls and provide an API for advanced users. You could probably coast on people being creative with the games they want to play by pedaling an indoor bicycle and become a cult hit by being accessible and ... cheap? (I have no idea how much these things usually cost)

[munk-a]

I think there's a real issue with any sort of bike desk/gaming setup which is that it's hard to interact with a stable system while biking so the interface necessarily needs to be tuned to cruder inputs. Biking is mostly a leg activity but the rest of the body does get involved and ends up making using something like a mouse or keyboard require a lot of work to provide a stable platform.

Bikes as display devices with crude inputs feels like the maximum we can get for a consumer device.

[geoelectric]

I think the idea for these tends to be more like having the little cycle thing under your desk. You don't use them to exercise at full tilt or pull sprints, more like you spend an hour or two doing whatever while keeping your legs moving on something with just enough resistance to maybe matter.

I briefly used a FitDesk (which is an exercise cycle with a lap-desk-quality platform rather than handlebars) and the cycling motions really weren't an issue for typing. But they did make the monitor bounce a lot. That was way more of a problem.