Garmin have 'acquired' Tacx. There goes any hope of innovative tooling solutions in favour of MOAR fucking stupid devices that cost ridiculous amounts of money so you can pretend you ride a bike...
Puts me in mind of that supercilious person advertising 'Elite Singles' - "a shot at finding The One" - yeah! Anything to avoid, you know, actually having to, like, interact with someone. Relationship! NOW! Because entitled...
And now I've turned it into a rant.
I am not so down on Garmin. Having used a Satmap which made a Garmin seem easy to use and had the battery life of a dodo then I am more forgiving. Also my 1030 works like a charm.
I have had 3 Tacx turbos. The first simple one was boring and simple but worked so long as you kept the tyre pumped up. My wife got a forties I think with manual resistance control and bluetooth? transmission of speed?
I got the original Tacx Neo. Never gone wrong for me, just works. Occasional cadence spike at low power when it interprets my lack of smoothness as extra cadence. I have an old frame on it, permanently plugged in and I walk in climb on and start pedaling.
Tacx will now have access to a lot better software engineers and the TTS RLV may well provide a real life alternative to Zwift, vertigo and BigringVR. I suspect in a years time one of those 3 will cease to exist.
The alternative is probably that Zwift will produce their own hardware and lock everybody else out.