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VentureCap Strategist’s “Safest and Smartest Way” to play the Virtual Reality Revolution

By Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe, April 12, 2016

We’ve certainly seen our share of “next breakthrough” promises from Louis Basenese — he has worked for a variety of publishers (mostly under the Agora umbrella, I think) and is now promoting a service that he calls VentureCap Strategist, published by Wall Street Daily, and now he’s dangling his take on virtual reality in front of potential subscribers as an inducement to pony up (currently “on sale” at $1,350).

And, of course, we know that buying little speculative stocks for the “next big thing” is not going to work out well a lot of the time — but we can’t resist the occasional little speculation. So Louis’ ad caught my eye, and I thought I’d try to figure out what it is that he’s really talking about for you.

The big idea of virtual reality is, of course, firmly entrenched in “cutting edge” consumer electronics culture already — and with the launch of the Samsung Gear and the Oculus Rift from Facebook, among other less-publicized headsets, the interest is high enough that many newsletter pundits are trying to capitalize… each of them talking up the “next big thing” or the company that owns the critical intellectual property or component designs or other must-have ingredients that will make virtual reality profitable for investors.

Nobody is recommending Samsung, or Apple, or Alphabet, or Microsoft or Facebook as plays on this new “virtual reality” — that’s because those are all huge, profitable businesses, and virtual reality is unlikely to make a big dent in their income statements in the next few years even if it is as big a hit as the most optimistic futurists believe.

Basenese pulls out some numbers to buttress his argument, and he didn’t just make them up — DigiTimes seems to be the source for his $5.1 billion in augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) sales this year, as well as the forecast that sales for the two will hit $150 billion in 2020, but DigiTimes is also making some big assumptions (as they’ll readily admit), modeling AR as a business that will move on a trajectory like early smartphones and address a huge market, and VR as a “niche” gaming and 3D entertainment business. You can see the basic projections here. That’s not the only market report that’s made projections about VR, of course — Markets and Markets, for example, is projecting VR as a $16 billion market by 2020 (not clear on whether they’re splitting out VR and AR, or splitting them in the same way)

I guess either of those scenarios is as possible as anything else, but we should remember that this is all soothsaying — virtual reality as a niche business for hardcore video game customers is on a fast track, with rabid early demand for the new Oculus and other headsets setting the stage nicely, but augmented reality is still awaiting the “Aha!” moment when consumers really get interested in something beyond a fancy headset for police or a heads-up display for mechanics or factory workers. The first version of Google Glass was a worthy first attempt at a very limited AR wearable, and there have been other “smart glasses,” but there’s not much evidence yet that the marketplace is clamoring for them. Google Glass will almost certainly be reborn in some fashion, and the Microsoft Hololens is getting a lot of attention as a consumer version of a fighter-pilot’s projection visor, but if people were getting beaten up for wearing Google Glass into bars I can’t imagine what would happen if they walked in with a Hololens.MSHoloLens_Image_1_CMYK

So although you could make an argument that Facebook is the most potentially levered big “brand” player in VR right now, simply because their revenue base is so much smaller (FB’s annual revenue is closing in on $20 billion, Alphabet/Google is around $75 billion, a little below Microsoft’s ~$90 billion, and Samsung and Apple are both above $200 billion), even that requires a bit of a leap of faith. Facebook is certainly committed to virtual reality, as they are to other big priorities like artificial intelligence and increasing global connectivity… but VR is certainly not going to be more than a rounding error in Facebook’s results in 2016, even if the Oculus Rift is more successful than average expectations and sells a million units. Mark Zuckerberg has indicated that sales need to hit 50-100 million units before VR becomes a meaningful new “platform,” and the headsets are likely to lose money for a while and be very low-margin compared to Facebook’s core advertising business. (OK, before you call me out on this: I suppose you could throw HTC in with that mix as maybe levered to VR headsets, too, but HTC has been unable to market their core products into meaningful sales against big competitors, so it’s hard to take them that seriously.)

Which is why everyone, including Louis Basenese, is trying to come up with the “hidden” winners of the virtual reality revolution — Michael Robinson and Ray Blanco have touted NVIDIA because of their leading graphics processing (VR demands dramatic computing power), Jason Stutman has touted HiMax for their microdisplays (they powered the tiny Google Glass screen), and even Louis has pitched other companies in VR — back in December I concluded that he was probably recommending Spectra7 for the role their equipment can play in gesture recognition, a key element in interacting with virtual worlds.

Everyone’s looking for the emergence of “Intel (INTC) inside” branded VR guts, or the ARM holdings (ARMH) or Qualcomm (QCOM) chip design/patent owner/supplier opportunity in the VR space — and hopefully everyone’s also a bit wary of the fact that we remember ARMH and QCOM and INTC because they stand out as hugely profitable survivors among a great many semiconductor and component manufacturers who have bitten the dust because of their inability to excel in a harshly competitive and margin-eroding field. Businesses like semiconductor and electronic component design and production, where capabilities double every year or so and prices get cut in half almost as quickly, are very, very difficult and leave a lot of failures in their wake.

Now, still striking while the VR/AR iron is hot, Basenese is hinting at something else. What could it be? Would it be possible to have an even longer lead-in to this teaser solution? Inquiring minds want to know…

The clues?

The ad gets us started with a few video scenarios — one of a police pursuit using an AR headset that’s clearly the Golden-i from Kopin, one of a football-themed ad for Microsoft’s HoloLens, and one an AR video game from Magic Leap (owned by Google) where you shoot at tanks that come through the wall of your living room.

And then talks up that “buy the secret guts” idea:

“It’s not a matter of which brand of headset, or whether VR or AR will outsell the other, or even that $120 billion or more is headed into AR.

“Investing in the patented hardware and software now used in both VR and AR headsets, no matter the brand – that’s where investment fortunes could be made.

“And that’s where you could find your fortune, too – your pot of gold!

“In the technologies these headsets rely on – and specifically in the one company whose technologies are powering the VR and AR revolution.”

How about something more specific about this company?

“The company I’m now ready to introduce you – this is the Levi Strauss among the VR/AR gold miners.

“Google, Intel and Samsung among them.

“Plus, it also sells its patented hardware and software to companies that are developers and suppliers themselves.

“The easiest way for you to think of this company is to compare it to the electronics company HTC in its early days.

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“HTC built great smartphones for other companies before branding the phones as their own.

“And in the process it saw its stock rise 1,897% over nine years.”

That “Levi Strauss” bit is a reference to the old saw that you don’t want to own gold miners, you want to own the company that sells the “picks and shovels” (and dungarees) to those miners.

And then we get a bit more specific:

“This company is the bedrock on which VR/AR stands.

“It’s the only ‘pure play’ VR/AR company in the world.

“A highly trusted one at that.

“In fact, it’s the single largest U.S. manufacturer of micro AR display systems for the U.S. military.

“Its Helmet Mounted Display System (HMDS) is now deployed in the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter – the most advanced jet fighter in the world….

“… this is the U.S. military’s go-to company for micro display AR technology.

“From fighter pilot helmets to night vision binoculars to thermal weapon gun sights…”

OK, so that’s really enough to feed to the hungry Thinkolator… but let’s just grab a couple more clues to make sure:

“The company sells smart sunglasses (pictured below) for cyclists – using a 2mm hi-def display module. The world’s smallest….

“the company also sells goggles for skiers and snowboarders that display the wearer’s speed, jump analytics, distance, trail maps, altitude and GPS location.

“All the while keeping the wearer connected to calls and texts via Bluetooth….”

I won’t make you suffer through too many more of the clues (you can see the full ad here if you’re curious), but we are also told that this company made the headset featured in the police video, and that it was “conceived at MIT 30 years ago”… so yes, the Thinkolator can confirm that what Louis Basenese is hinting at here is indeed Kopin (KOPN).

Kopin is a very small technology company, with a market cap of just $120 million or so — and they have about $80 million in cash, so unless there’s some hidden obligation that I don’t see on their balance sheet that means investors are valuing the operations of the company at just about $40 million. Teensy.

And they were indeed conceived at MIT about 30 years ago, they were founded by Dr. John Fan and were early leaders in the business of making small active-matrix LCD displays (for camcorder viewfinders and the like), though they did also make military products, and Dr. Fan says he was an early (20 years ago) advocate of headset-mounted displays akin to Google Glass. Their other key product was a line of chips that are used in mobile phones, HBT chips, but that was in the III-V business that they sold back in 2013 and got the final cash payment from early this year (that sale is where much of their big cash balance comes from).

They did also design that headset that was used in the video that Basenese included in his ad — as mentioned above, that is the Golden-i headset that uses the design from Kopin and software from a firm called Ikanos Consulting (now renamed Intoware). That was released in 2011, with some iterative updates over the years, and hasn’t yet become a big seller as far as I can tell from Kopin’s financials — really, they aren’t trying to be a manufacturer of Golden-i headsets, the language on their website, calling this a “wearable headset reference design,” implies that they’re trying to use this design as a way to get others to build stuff using their components.

Those components include microphone technology called “Whisper Chip” that apparently is an improvement over other “noise reduction” or “speech enhancement” systems (so you can talk into the wind while bicycling, or whisper to your headset in the middle of a loud party, for example), as well as the display technology itself that continues to be their core business… the tiny LCD screens for “near eye” display. And yes, they do have new “smart glasses” for cyclists that they’re offering up for sale this Summer — that’s essentially a more active and streamlined version of Google Glass, with sport sunglasses that display your workout data, etc. That product is called Solos, not quite available for sale yet. No idea what it will cost, but probably something less than $500 like other “smart glasses” (including the Recon Jet, which also uses a Kopin display — Recon, which also makes smart snow goggles, was bought by Intel last Summer).

Just browsing around the web and looking at these kinds of products, you can get a sense of the experimentation that’s currently going on — with this and other augmented reality products, it looks like we’re going to see more “niche” wearables for specific types of workers or athletes well before we see people wearing them as they walk down the street. It kind of feels like all these companies are throwing stuff at the wall and just waiting to see what consumers get excited about — we didn’t know we needed the iPhone before it came out, but it was at least “cool” and was following in a product trend that was starting to be popularized already by Palm and Blackberry, so if we’re starting to see our first AR devices that appeal to at least some power users, what’s going to be “cool” in wearables or augmented reality and drive mass adoption?

Beats me.

Kopin has some similarities with HiMax, which is why I mentioned it in my piece about Jason Stutman’s HiMax teaser ad a few months ago — like HiMax, it’s hoping that the new VR/AR business will get demand back up for some of their core products (and new versions of such products, like microdisplays and display driver chips)… and like HiMax, it’s still getting most of its revenue from microdisplays and has failed to generate any sustainable revenue growth in recent years. (There’s a new “short attack” article out on HIMX from the short selling site StreetSweeper that tries to poke some holes in the Virtual Reality hype, by the way).

Because of its small size, Kopin is probably as close to anyone as being a “pure play” on AR — which isn’t saying that much, in my view. There is reason for some optimism if some of their technologies, like their speech enhancement “Whisper Chip”, are actually better than competing technologies, but I have no idea whether that’s really true. Here’s what the CEO said in the press release for last year’s results:

“In 2015, our revenues from sale of products for the wearable market doubled over 2014 to approximately $12 million. As more companies adopt Kopin’s view that the headset is the next smartphone and voice will someday replace touch, we expect more new customers and industries to develop. We have been very active in new design-in activities, including a product for public safety which our customer is expected to debut in the second quarter of this year. Furthermore Solos and Whisper Chips are on track for a summer release to provide additional revenue growth, which until now has been based on our display and display modules. Now our heavy lifting of technology and product development is finishing as planned and we are entering the marketing and sales phases. With our extensive patent portfolio, design wins with Tier One customers and our strong balance sheet, we are very well positioned to take advantage of the growing and potentially huge wearable market.”

The question really is, I guess, whether or not demand for more AR headsets will create meaningful volume demand for Kopin’s microphone or display-related products. Partly that depends on competition, where I certainly don’t have thorough knowledge, and partly it depends on overall market growth. Right now, it’s a well-financed hope for the future — $12 million in revenues in wearables last year, which hopefully will be growing enough to start to make up for declining revenues elsewhere (total revenue for 2015 was about $32 million). Their operating expenses including R&D have been around $35 million a year, so they’re not that far from being able to scale up to profitability IF there are some higher-volume products in wearables that drive 100%+ revenue growth for a few years. There are only two analysts posting estimates for KOPN, no surprise for such a small firm, and their average forecast is that revenue will drop again this year before increasing markedly in 2017 (though it would still be just $42 million in revenue next year in that scenario, and they’d still be losing money).

Real growth is obviously a fairly big “if” at this stage, and there’s a long history of KOPN putting together pretty disappointing results for more than a decade before they sold their biggest revenue division (III-V) that had become commoditized, and before they really pushed this turnaround to bet the company on AR and wearables… but there is at least the potential for a real and potentially growing business inside this microcap company.

They’re not there yet, as evidenced by the fact that overall revenue is still declining, and the share price is close to all-time lows, but there is at least a plan. I can’t tell you whether it will work, and I’m not invested in the stock, all I can really tell you for sure is that Kopin is almost certainly the stock Louis Basenese is hinting at in ads for his VentureCap Strategist.

Sound like your kind of investment? Have any experience with this or any of the other virtual reality “story” stocks? Let us know with a comment below.

Disclosure: I own shares of Facebook, Alphabet/Google and Apple, and call options on Nvidia and Apple. I don’t own any other stock mentioned above, and won’t trade any stock covered for at least three days per Stock Gumshoe’s trading rules.

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Chuck P
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Chuck P
April 12, 2016 3:41 pm

On a slightly different topic has anyone heard of this guy by the name of Jim Rickards who keeps making these “Doom and Gloom Videos”????? He portrays himself as an insider to the CIA which I suspect is alot of B S.

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Adrian
April 12, 2016 4:42 pm
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Jim’s been around for a long time and has good advice. He is involved with Council on Foreign relations so take some things with suspect. He has a good understanding of global markets though and direction

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CARBON BIGFOOT
April 12, 2016 5:29 pm

Louis B. bounces from game to game. At one time he was Chief Investor for the Communiqué Oxford Club’s Flagship. I don’t remember how long he lasted, but it’s possible some of his recommendations went South– like all Snake Oil Salesmen.
I really looked forward to his monthly diatribe and got sucked in. I’d have been better off shorting his stock picks. The same goes for Alex and Kareem after 2011. Lost $35K in their 35% stop loss recommendations.

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heuristocrat
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April 12, 2016 5:58 pm

I Lou has suffered from some over hyping but I suppose many newsletters need to do that (except this excellent one!)

FWIW I found an interesting small company called VUZI that is coming to market with an industrial/enterprise AR solution. Kind of like a grown up version of Google Glass for real applications like mechanics and stuff like that. They’ve had some stumbles so I don’t know how reliable the team is but for me what they are doing makes more sense than the general VR/gaming stuff. At least there is a potential real world ROI in the enterprise if these things work. Interested if anyone else has any opinions on this VUZI.

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Wild Bill
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April 12, 2016 9:21 pm

The VUZIX CO., seems to hang in there, and are getting good at it. Before the L.V. electronics show intel sank some nice money into it. They have some important patents, in the game, and their m3000 series @ 700$ a pop is picking up in sales. I don’y use vr. no use, old I guess, but their’s takes out a lot of the bulk. VUZI running a little over 5$ a share. Steal, if you know anything about that stuff. I don’t know much about it. Hope that helps.

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MUmatman
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April 19, 2016 2:33 am
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Indicators point down.

steveinfla
April 12, 2016 6:00 pm

Travis: Good afternoon! As usual the usage of the “Thinkolator” and your take on Lou Basanese’s latest pump on his VentureCap Strategist along with all the additional information you provided is very much appreciated as “Always”. That having been said I have to admit that I myself did in fact subscribe to Lou Basaneses’s VentureCap Strategist back in December for the “cut-rate” of $1350.00 which provided first a 30 day trial period, which when I decided to opt out was told it was extended to 90 days which I thought was a cool thing to do and was very appreciative of. However, after trying it out for another 2 months, or I should say more accurately, waiting for something to happen I decided to opt out and was again told the trail period was now extended to six (6) months due to the all the volatility in the market from the latter half of 2015 into 2016 and they felt bad so I said what the heck I’ll hang out a little longer but I still wasn’t impressed with what I was getting, or should say NOT getting as I still had only the one (1) play which I received when I first subscribed in December 2015. Oh btw the website states that Greg Miller not Lou Basanese technically heads up VentureCap Strategist but with a lot of input from Lou so I guess you can call it a tag-team. Continuing, when I was told that the trial period was extended an additional 6 months for the same reason, I found it to be a very honorable thing to do taken at face value but nonetheless finally did opt out anyway and was refunded every penny without any questions whatsoever and have to say their customer service was always excellent but I didn’t subscribe for customer service! I also still had 2 months on my new 6 month trial. However, the reason I am commenting is not because I wanted to tell you the business practices of Wall Street Daily and their honoring of their trial periods without question but that Lou who I am always hearing is the “Man” when it comes to Silicon Valley and technology is actually listed and spends more time heading up “Digital Fortunes” which is also run by Wall Street Daily and wouldn’t you know the play you just deciphered, KOPIN, is already in the VentureCap Strategist portfolio and has been for at least or very close to a year ago by now (I have a bad memory). I just wanted to point this out to anyone who was thinking of joining VentureCap Strategist as I was totally shocked when you deciphered that it was Kopin that he was pumping but I was more upset that I only received one (1) stock play, not including what was already in the portfolio some dating back to 2014, and which was as you already stated Spectra7 Microsystems back in December. Everything else he has suggested, which to be honest whether due to the market volatility or whatever, I would have to say approximately 70% of the companies in the portfolio were losing just a few days ago, some much more than others. Although there were a couple of decent plays that succeeded within the portfolio they had already passed by when I subscribed which is just I understand is just the way it is sometimes, but to only receive one (1) stock play in four months when they initially offered at least a couple a month was a big shocker and one of the primary reasons I opted out, especially for $1350.00. The fact that the “Thinkolator” just spit out the name Kopin again just underscores that I made the right decision to discontinue my subscription. I guess the only real way to be Venture Capitalist-like is to be an actual Venture Capitalist because, to me anyway, VentureCap Strategist was NOT making the grade so buyer be ware. Who knows maybe I just came in at the wrong time but with all of his supposed inside knowledge, which is what I was sold on, I definitely expected a heck of a lot more and at least what they offered in their advertisement, and it wasn’t only one (1) VentureCap play every 4 months I can tell you that. Honestly, had I known about your service before subscribing to VentureCap Strategist, especially for that type of money discount or not, I never would have but the real disappointment was again having only received one (1), that’s right one (1) VentureCap Strategist pick in the four (4) months I was a subscriber. Thanks for listening and I hope this helps anyone out there who was curious. I really thought they were different than the “other” companies but they all end up being the same. But like I said they did refund every penny back to me without question so for that I do thank them but that’s about it. I would have gladly stayed and spent the money if I would have gotten at least a few stock plays to pursue but never happened! Sad but true. Sigh! Thanks for letting me share my thoughts on the matter.

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rcasquejo
April 12, 2016 11:09 pm
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Thank you steveinfla for your post. You just saved me the time and from consternation, for I was ready to try out VenturCap Strategy before I thought about checking Stock Gumshoe!

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rosalindr
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April 21, 2016 7:51 pm
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I always check Stock Gumshoe first. I save a lot of money and headaches that way. I only wish Travis was around years ago when brokers nearly left me broke!

Roz

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alanh
April 12, 2016 6:25 pm

VR is indeed a very interesting development, but I think there are soooo many software geeks out there that youd be hard pressed to find A winner. Id guess that Google/Apple et al will take this market and bring it to the public via their phones…..the software guys will simply become wage slaves.

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SoGiAm
April 12, 2016 9:37 pm

Virtual Reality and AR – – Digital Fortunes
Link for continuity: http://www.stockgumshoe.com/2016/04/microblog-virtual-reality-and-ar-digital-fortunes/ Way to go dxeplt. modernrocks, Carilda Thomas. m2grace, Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe Rockz 🙂 🙂 Subscribe and learn: http://www.stockgumshoe.com/2014/11/first-steps-and-favorite-tools-for-new-investors/ 😉

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May 28, 2016 10:43 am
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I am curios KOPIN been working it for 30 years and the stock’s last trade at $2.05?
Can this be a stock to own? Plus it don’t pay dividends. What say ye?

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who noze
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April 12, 2016 10:05 pm

my money is on e magine

Wild Bill
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April 12, 2016 10:28 pm

Why defend Jim Rickard , he impresses me to be a Ron Paul relative. LOL. I mean there’s enough of the ” money whores ” in this stuff. What’s one more EX-CIA agent to through in the pot. Does his government know what he’s doing, or should we be suspicious think something to make us all paranoid! Why am I all of a sudden scared? I’m tired going to bed goodnight everyone and thanks ‘a bunch Travis. If you can read through some of the BULL on this site you can pick up some pretty good intell.

dxeplt
April 13, 2016 10:25 am

Travis, I asked, I received. Thank you for an incredibly thorough report on this latest hype or clue, whichever it ends up being. Comments from all the others are extremely helpful also. You have the best value on the Internet for finding real clues or exposing hype. Thanks again – you’re the best

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Miceal
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April 13, 2016 11:26 am

Spectra7 may have a future:
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/spectra7-announces-preliminary-first-quarter-2016-financial-results-tsx-sev-2113934.htm

April 12, 2016 06:45 ET
Spectra7 Announces Preliminary First Quarter 2016 Financial Results
Expects Record Quarterly Revenues and Design-ins as New Embedded Products Move Into Production
PALO ALTO, CA and TORONTO, ON–(Marketwired – April 12, 2016) – (TSX: SEV) Spectra7 Microsystems Inc. (“Spectra7” or the “Company”) today announced preliminary selected unaudited financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2016. Unaudited financial statements for the Company’s first quarter ended March 31, 2016 will be released in May 2016. The information contained herein may change based on final results. Unless otherwise indicated, all amounts in this release are expressed in US dollars.
The Company expects to report revenue of approximately $2.5 million for the first quarter of 2016, representing an increase of 60% over the prior quarter’s revenue of $1.6 million and an increase of 256% compared to the same period last year. The majority of this growth was driven by shipments for the Company’s new high performance embedded products which are used in high growth consumer market segments including virtual reality, augmented reality and media interconnects. Several of the Company’s new products moved beyond development and into mass production in the quarter, resulting in an expected gross margin1 as a percentage of revenue of 62%, up from 46% in the prior quarter.
ORDER BOOKINGS UPDATE: Orders in First Quarter of 2016 Match Prior Bookings Record
The Company also announced that it added to its existing order backlog new confirmed orders or “bookings” of $2.5 million during the first quarter of 2016, matching the $2.5 million record bookings set in the third quarter of 2015.
DESIGN-IN UPDATE: Design-in Activity Remains Strong
The Company also announced that during the first quarter of 2016, the Company added 17 additional design-ins to the Company’s roster across four market segments.
etc. etc. …

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SoGiAm
April 13, 2016 12:04 pm
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Spectra7 Microsystems Inc Stock Chart SPVNF $0.4329* Delayed
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/spvnf/stock-chart?intraday=off&timeframe=1y&charttype=candlestick&splits=off&earnings=on&movingaverage=200day&lowerstudy=volume&comparison=&index=&drilldown=off&sDefault=true

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modernrock
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April 13, 2016 3:25 pm

Patience will be needed on KOPN since they haven’t really started promoting yet. It was delicately placed at the top of their emails but hasn’t hit the main Que yet. Guessing once it hits the main Que it will start moving up. Peeps love $2 stocks with 3 figure targets.

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rosalindr
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April 21, 2016 8:10 pm

I’d rather buy Facebook or Intel, which I already have. It’s better to buy the adult than the baby. When the adults adopt the babies, shareholders get the benefits of both security and growth.

Roz

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Lee
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May 28, 2016 10:49 am

Hi Travis
Thank you for all your expertise. I am wondering about KOPIN, if it has been around for 30 years why is it trading at $2.05 and no dividends? Seems it is just existing. Good price to buy in but if it keeps at this pace will it end up a pump n dump?
Thank you
Lee

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arto525
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April 24, 2016 7:47 pm

Agora has also weighed in with a pitch to sell yet another $49 Newsletter (http://research.agorafinancial.com/research/video/tek_virtualreality_0316/?code=ETEKS4B0&n=TEK_virtualreality_0316&email=arto525%40comcast.net&a=13&o=37742&s=41016&u=4752701&l=181601&r=MC2&vid=_FY8Vg&g=0&ver=3).
Of course they’ve added a pornography tease to the pitch. Ridiculous!!
I’ve taken small positions with VUZI, KOPN and HIMX. We’ll see.

“Most people look at you and just smile. I look at you and laugh.” (Art O)

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steveinfla
April 25, 2016 3:13 pm

Regarding Spectra7 Microsystems, aside from the numbers they’re supposed to be releasing, which I think they did provide a “preliminary” report, does anyone have any idea of any upcoming surges. I’ve taken a position with them since it was first recommended, bought it at any average price of $0.36, started raising in small increments then popped $0.15 to $$0.58, and came back a bit to the $0.55-$0.56 cent range where it’s been fluctuating for the past 2-3 weeks. Just wondering if anyone has heard anything about any upcoming “pops” to their stock. I’m a bit surprised that it hasn’t moved further since the release of Ocular Rift but maybe it’s a bit more pricey than anticipated. Or since they just recently released Oculus Rift it just may take time for the numbers to catch up but I do know that Spectr7 Microsystems is have a few chips embedded into Oculus Rift, and in particular the very fine, thin cord tethering it to the CPU, which is a very critical aspect of the whole system. I really thought that after subsequent additional teat downs and the discovery of additional Spectra7 chips within the Oculus Rift, the share price would have risen more steadily and robust. Guess that’s why I don’t work on Wall Street, not that they are that great at what they’re supposed to be anyway! Any feedback would be welcomed. Regards

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james vp
March 3, 2017 6:34 am

No, people will not be wearing Hololense on the street. I don’t think that is the intention nor is it important. I see it more as a future home computing, educational and entertainment platform…. I wonder how good the graphics and display coverage will have to be to really be taken up by the public for these uses? What are the hurdles and will the new version of Hololense at the end of 2017 overcome some of the negative feed back? Snapdragon with windows 10 in the new version may be the first positive move forward. I have a small play on HIMAX that would be a little sting to loose but at $5 a pop at the time of purchase I think it will be fine. I see at least a return to $10…and will keep an eye out on these various companies over the longer term.

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