Have now watched the video.
I stick with my post above. I don't think it's a scam.
But .....
I still won't be buying in.
First thing. The interview itself was pretty bad. "Cool. Cool.". "Absolutely. Absolutely.". The interviewer was .... ummm .... pretty bad.
But that's incidental.
I admire the enthusiasm for VR. I suspect I agree with a lot of your thinking there. Broadly.
But as a business/investment?
Nope. It's blue sky thinking. And little more.
The concept was not clear. Why you need crypto is not clear. It doesn't sound like you do. We run loyalty programs at work. Clients use custom URL's (online) and it routes back through various EPoS (which are connected obviously) and other online endpoints. I know what it takes to build and manage a system like that. I break ours on a regular basis.
We don't use Crypto.
"Having an token you can use in VR just made total sense. You don't want to be putting 16 digit numbers in and stuff ...."
Um. No. You buy you in game tokens. You go in video/game. You use your tokens. As you even said in the video! Buy up front. Use in game/video (this chopped and changed a lot throughout). How do you get the crypto? You buy it. When? With what? Crypto didn't seem to serve much purpose. Lots of "we could do this", "yeah we could try that", "we're thinking about that". But nothing concrete. What are we buying into here? At one point you say the signal token could used on any other platform. VR is just what you want to do it with? So ..... surely the signalling system is the actual crypto part? VR is actually incidental here?
The other token (Specs?) is not crypto. Because it needs to be controlled. But then your sending it to ShapeShift. And then someone else is processing it for you. As fiat? But then giving you money back. And you put it in a user account. But you don't handle any transactions? And then I'm sure at some point you turned it into Signals .... to pay content providers or something? As there would be no ad money early on? How is all this happening?!?!? Everything is turning into everything else? WHAT?!?!?!?
So I'm investing in a crypto that could be used elsewhere. A (maybe?) non-crypto tipping token? Some sort of platform that is not a DAPP (thank fuck .... Ethereum could never support something on that scale just now) that sounds like a VR bastard-child of YouTube and Periscope. And maybe Twitch. But you already said yourself they claimed the gaming streaming space. Why wouldn't they just start doing VR too?
Initial content? Very limited.
Exclusives? The guys you mention who make videos. Who are currently on YouTube. Will they be dropping YouTube and becoming exclusive to you?
With no "too mature" content.
That you guys will build, manage, moderate, expand and maintain to the point you become the defacto VR landing spot.
I think.
Holy shit.
And there is where the real problems start.
Nothing is costed. Or estimated. Because you don't quite know what you're trying to build yet.
Revenue? I don't see where any comes from when it goes live? (Not ads - as you admit) People buying to tip? Why does the ERC token have any value? Why is it even an ERC token? How will it gain value? Why? I'm still not clear there after reading everything I could find AND watching that video. But you have a slushfund from the crowdsale? Which you could use? What?!?!? So we're investing to pay some guy with a devaluing token to upload shitty videos? You kept talking about quality, but then about people submitting their own stuff. The two tend to be polar opposites. "Maybe" partnerships or exclusives in the future. "Maybe" live VR gaming watching. Or sharing a theatre. Some in VR. Some not. What is this?!?!? Make up your mind!
You're guessing about advertising techniques that barely exist but talking about $100k ads in your white paper?!?!?
This is clearly VERY early stage stuff.
So nah. I admire your train of thought. But you don't even have a fleshed out concept. Reason I can't get detail out of you is that you don't have any.
I'll wish you luck and watch to see what eventually comes out of it. Maybe you will prove me wrong. Who knows.
I'm not THAT risk averse. I have a bunch of money in crypto FFS! But this one really is spinning a coin and hoping it stops on it's side if you ask me.
(I actually did that once. So it's a totally valid analogy. I KNOW how fucking rare it is ...)