YouTube Wants Queen Fans to See How High They Can Score on the FreddieMeter

The augmented reality experience compares their voices with Freddie Mercury’s

So, you think you can sing like Freddie Mercury? The FreddieMeter on YouTube will be the judge of that.

The video site teamed up with corporate siblings Google Creative Lab and Google Research—as well as Queen, Universal Music Group and Hollywood Records—on the augmented reality experiment.

FreddieMeter shows users how closely their voice matches Mercury’s range by analyzing the singer’s pitch, timbre and melody to assign them a score of 0 to 100.

Fans can choose from four songs: “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Don’t Stop Me Now,” “Somebody to Love” or “We Are the Champions.”

Once they are done belting out the Queen classics and receiving their scores, the custom scorecard generated by FreddieMeter can be shared via YouTube Stories, Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.

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