Snoop Dogg made a guest appearance at E3 to help Yoostar announce they are joining forces with MTV to fulfill the dreams of pop culture fans and gamers alike by giving them the opportunity to star in some of the most iconic scenes to ever hit the cable TV station. Additionally, some of the best music videos of the last several decades will be playable in Yoostar on MTV. This includes videos from the visiting Snoop Dogg who gave a brief endorsement before greeting some of the media.
Features included in Yoostar On MTV:
o Developed in conjunction with MTV Networks
o 80 clips on the disk from the following areas:
o TV – Classics, Reality, Original Programming, Previews of new shows
o Music Videos
o Video Backgrounds – News, Award Shows, Interview Sets
o VGS 2.0, which introduces the next revolution in virtual green screen:
o Extensive improvement in the users’ image quality in low, medium and optimal lighting conditions.
o New blending, smoothing and color correction techniques make the player feel and look like they’re really embedded into the scene!
o Improved masking techniques provide a more solid image, minimizing pixilation and hair “dropout”.
o Full support of the Xbox 360 4GB Console, giving players the ability to watch replays, save and upload their scenes.
o 50 awesome challenges designed around MTV programs.
o Weekly DLC (downloadable content) focused on scenes, sets, and scene packs.
o Upload performances directly to Yoostar Playground, Facebook, and Twitter.
o Be a part of the Yoostar Playground online community, rate and award your fellow Yoostars’ uploaded clips, all while earning fame, boosts, and Yoobucks. Add comments, enter contests and rise up the leaderboard ladder.
There will also be an update to Yoostar 2 coming in about a month to improve the virtual green screen technology. Before long anyone with a XBox and a Kinect will be able to fist pump on Jersey Shore or enjoy the Dogg’s video life.
E3 Impressions: Snoop’s arrival at the booth caused a bit of a media mini riot, so he understandably was mostly kept in a booth with a glass window then left pretty quickly afterwards. The Yoostar folks are very happy about their product, which they should be. The first Yoostar game was a nice accomplishment bringing green screen technology, which was mostly the game of networks and higher end companies, into a home kit at an affordable rate. They did not have a whole lot of time to get all of the compatibility issues worked out on the Kinect system but were able to make very good use of the newest technology. Though it doesn’t quite look like you have stepped into the movie due to “halo” issues on the current version of Yoostar 2, the next patch promises to make improvements so that eventually you can truly be proud when you post your images on the Yoostar Playground for friends and strangers to rate and berate.
