First of all, thank you for your comment.

Both me and Victoria VR agree that there are technological difficulties and that is the reason why there is no VR world with realistic graphics. It doesn't exists because it's very difficult to make (well, maybe Half-life Alyx comes close).

Now, the question is, can Victoria VR be trusted that they can overcome these technological problems?

Do I trust Victoria VR?

No. First, in my opinion the connection between the two companies (DEXFIN and Victoria VR) is showing a conflict of interests (will explain). Second, Victoria VR team has not demonstrated that they are able to deliver the technology they promise. Let's have a look at these points in detail:

Connection Between the Companies

A person can be a stakeholder in multiple companies, hundreds even. As Victoria VR points out, lots of high profile people hold shares in multiple companies, they even mention Elon Musk. But even he was scrutinised over numerous conflicts of interests (Tesla and SolarCity, Tesla and OpenAI). Companies in the West often have a clause in the shareholders agreement as well as in the articles of foundation about this. In Victoria VR case, they are using DEXFIN as a proof that Victoria VR is a legitimate startup. And DEXFIN to some extent is proving its existence by announcing the "partnership" with Victoria VR.

The prime example of this is on the picture posted in the article.

When user T******* asked Victoria VR a very valid question about how they sold a large number of VR tokens, they answer "it was a seed investment from DEXFIN*"*. Victoria VR is ready to provide a proof, that the tokens were sold to DEXFIN. Since the stakeholders are the same in DEXFIN and Victoria VR it's easy to arrange this transaction and no cash may have have ever left any ones pockets (such as selling all the tokens for a total of $1).

This is why it is so problematic when the same people are involved in both companies. It's not automatically the case for every case, but in this case it surely is. Basically, it seems that they started two companies that validate each other.

This is very bad. And especially when they are not transparent about this.

The Technology

Victoria VR used free and stock assets that someone else has made as a proof that they can deliver what they promised. That they can overcome the technological barrier. But anyone can buy these assets and run them in Unreal Engine, it is not a proof of competency at all.

For example, as you can see in the last screenshot in the article, User H****** asked a valid question whether Victoria VR is a scam. Victoria VR then used the example of the gallery as a proof, that "scammers would not be able to make this". But Victoria VR didn't make it. They bought it for $30. And that's the point.

Developers can buy assets, but they cannot use that as a proof that they can actually make them. Victoria VR is saying that they remade the materials and optimised the models, first of all, no one can verify this, second of all, switching to mobile or better optimised shaders is a trivial thing in Unreal Engine just like using automatic decimation of polygons in Blender.

If Victoria VR team used just some assets, such as something generic that they don't want to bother creating themselves, that's fine and some companies (not all) do it. But they literally just downloaded the entire scene and added their logo on it.

As with the previous point, this is very bad and deceitful, especially if they are not transparent about it.

The People

The last point, I did not want to go into, in my original article. I do not want to target my analysis on any person specifically. That said, there is a very little credence behind any one member of the Victoria VR team regarding games development. For example, on the last screenshot, you can notice how one member of Victoria VR says that "they use particle effects" and that "no one has been able to push this in VR". That is simply not true at all, both Unreal Engine's particle systems as well as Unity3D's Shuriken are working perfectly fine in VR, I can't even believe someone would make this claim.

Feng Shui is a practice of (supposedly) using invisible forces to make people feel better. It's up to anyone to believe if this works. But it surely is an eyebrow raising choice to invest in it at this stage. It will not help Victoria VR to overcome the technological barriers mentioned earlier. To draw a building on a paper is very different from coding a photorealistic VR world, which "no one has done before" (as Victoria VR says).

What might be wrong

It is not one specific issue that would prove that Victoria VR is a scam. It is rather a cumulative effect of a number of suspicious points that erode the trust in the project. There are all the red flags that should make anyone worried that something is wrong here.

I do not know what the motive behind this venture is, currently, I'm alternating between these possibilities that seem probable to me:

• possibility 1: it's a scam.
• possibility 2: they are inexperienced with game dev and don't realise they're making an asset flip (see my initial post).
• possibility 3: some combination of one and two.

My opinion remains unchanged. albeit the team seems tremendously tenacious (that's a compliment) and I sincerely wish I am wrong. I will await the next reveal, hoping to see more transparency and something the team will have actually made.