FYI: BigRingVR and RGT are now temporarily free for everyone. If you ever wanted to try them extensively, now’s your chance.
https://cyclinglab.cc/cyclinglab-classics-challenge/ (this links to a challenge CyclingLab will be running together with BigRingVR)
Speaking of free: I’ve totally missed the VeloReality free 720p streaming option that is now available. I think that’s a bold move, as they hope you’ll upgrade to the full HD or even 4K stream, but I wouldn’t be that optimistic.
VeloReality’s video quality is as good as BigRingVR’s and the software to run it is free, but Windows only (unless you have Parallels and a Windows license).
https://veloreality.com/velorealitys-383-real-life-videos-now-streaming/
A clarification from BigRingVR about this free challenge / trial thing, given by Ilja Booij on the Xert forum:
Hi all,
When you’re a new trial user, all functionality is available. Trials last 14 days. Note that if you’ve done a trial a long time ago, i.e. more than 2 years ago and want to try again, please drop us a line at bigiringvr@bigringvr.com so we can enable a new trial for you.
For non-trial users that have no subscription, the 11 rides from the challenge are available for free. Workout functionality does is not available for non-trial users.
As for not being all free: We are a small company without large (VC) funding and the costs of providing all our rides for free would simply be too high.