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Commercial development from the ARME project is being taken forward through the MyJAMS Ltd spin-off company.

The ARME team is delighted to congratulate Dr Tom Goodman on being awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in His Majesty the King’s New Year Honours List for 2026. The honour recognises Tom’s services to technology in the West Midlands.

The ARME project continues to grow through follow-on funding. Alongside the core EPSRC grant, the project has secured further support to move the research towards practical tools for musicians, educators, and creative-technology partners.

As part of the ARME project, a Master student project by Nazrin Salimzade focused on designing an interface that supports discovery of musicians, social connection among potential collaborators, and encourages the creation of novel virtual ensembles.

The ARME project has been shared with public, professional, student, academic, and industry audiences through demonstrations, workshops, press coverage, and online channels. The following activities correspond to entries visible through the public UKRI/Gateway to Research record.

The ARME project and the business development that is spinning off through MyJAMS Ltd and the Joint Active Music Sessions (JAMS) platform have been featured by the University of Birmingham in two press releases:

The ARME project is celebrating a new milestone with additional backing from the iCURE program (https://www.icureprogramme.com). This UKRI acceleration award underscores ARME’s innovative approach to transforming musical practice and opens exciting opportunities for further advancements in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies.

The project has secured two impact acceleration awards, one to develop a version of the application to run on iOS, the other to work with the Museum of Music History for an exposition.

Max delves into the Augmented Reality Music Ensemble project in an interview at the University of Birmingham. The project’s core ambition is to understand human synchronization during musical performances. And by leveraging advanced technologies the team endeavours to develop a system that enables musicians to rehearse collectively, even when not in the physical presence of each other.

The VR Lab has a new website