Kenilworth Revealed shows another flavour of research impact

ARME research is reaching public audiences through a new route: local heritage, tourism, and community storytelling.

Kenilworth Revealed is a free augmented-reality app launched by Kenilworth Town Council on 10 November 2025. The app lets visitors explore the history of St Mary’s Abbey in Abbey Fields through augmented-reality plaques, video, sound, and interactive quests.

MyJAMS Ltd, the ARME spin-off company, contributed technology that applies immersive media methods developed around the project to a different kind of public experience. Instead of virtual ensemble rehearsal, the work supports historical re-enactment and place-based storytelling: local participants were filmed, extracted from their original scenes, and placed into reconstructed medieval environments.

The event is a useful example of a different flavour of research impact. ARME’s core work focuses on music performance, timing, synchronisation, and immersive rehearsal, but the same technical foundations can also help cultural organisations make archives, histories, and public spaces more vivid and accessible.

The project was produced by Kenilworth Town Council with partners including the University of Warwick, MyJAMS Ltd, Zubr, and the University of Birmingham. Local coverage from Kenilworth Nub News described the launch as the start of a new chapter for Kenilworth tourism.