John Mayer’s Augmented Reality in Battle Studies

A new album calls for some newfound interactivity on the web.

That’s what John Mayer has on his official website http://www.johnmayer.com. A Flash page that requires those who bother (like myself) to print out (or simply take a photo of it with your cell phone) the Battle Studies icon, show it to your webcam and some pretty interesting Flash interaction takes place (or as the website has it, it is an augmented reality).

(Strangely, the Flash wasn’t able to finish loading in Firefox but it works fine in IE.)

I never knew one can do such interactivity with Flash. And what I truly want to say is John Mayer’s new album is finally coming out. The single “Who Says” is available for viewing on YouTube and it does seem like Mr Mayer’s stripping down his music more and more (imo).

Lucky fans in countries where you can purchase songs off iTunes, you can now pre-order the album. Hey Apple, when are you going to include Singapore on the list of countries able to purchase songs off iTunes? *scowl*

Will just have to wait for the physical CD to hit the local stores.