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Yoostar 2, a game described as movie karaoke, is the latest effort from the Yoostar Group – look out for a preview soon.
After our time with the game we caught up with Acclaim founder and Yoostar Group CEO Greg Fischbach and quizzed him on the Kinect technology used to put the gamers into the game.
“I’m a tech-junkie,” said Fischbach. “I have an iPad, an iPod, an iPhone, and I think the gesture technology is really cool.”
He added: “I saw Microsoft and Spielberg introduce Kinect at E3 in June of last year. I thought ‘this is real innovation going on here,’ and we thought we could learn to use gesture technology in a lot other applications too, in terms of how we move things on screen. When I’m describing it to a friend I call it a ‘touchless touchscreen’ because people sometimes don’t get it. But the ability to move something on the screen, that dynamic is so much different than anything we’ve ever seen before. It makes Kinect very interesting in terms of technology.”
Despite his praise for Kinect, Fischbach insists the PS Move version of Yoostar 2 will work just as well.
“[The PS3 version] works basically the same way, the difference is that it uses the motion controller or the joypad, whereas this game only uses gesture and speech technology to control it. Other than that the games are virtually identical,” said Fischbach.
He added: “What’s so unique about what we’ve done is we’re one of the first companies that has been able to mask the background without using green screen on a 2D camera – and the PlayStation Eye uses a 2D camera, and that’s really cool.”
Yoostar 2 is scheduled for release later this year. Read the interview in full right here.
