Although the budget of MindScans is listed as $1500 (estimated), the actual cost was $1,310.10
Source: KSBY-TV - "MindScans" challenges conventional thinking about filming locally
This movie is based on the short story "The Last Days of White Magic" written by Best-Selling Sci-Fi author, Steven L. Kent.
The subject of Virtual Reality and its social and moral implications are mainstream and quaint by today's standards, but MindScans was based on a short story "The Last Days of White Magic" by Steven L. Kent and adapted into a screenplay by Ben Chiu in 2008. It was considered cutting edge at that time and many of the devices depicted in the movie (like the iPad-like devices and smart phones) did not exist at that time.