Behind the Scenes

GeoAR’s interactive simulation, Sandflat Heroes, is bringing Aotearoa's vital but overlooked marine ecosystems to life on screen. This story explores how the technology is helping scientists make the invisible visible - and inspire greater awareness of why these fragile sandflat environments matter. A sandflat might not appear much at first glance: perhaps a sweep of bare, muddy ground continuously washed by the tide. Beneath the surface, however, lies one of the most pro

For Geo AR Games, when innovating within limitations, teamwork is everything. Video games are one of the biggest and most lucrative sectors of the worldwide software technology industry today, which is why big development studios pour so much money into creating them. Think Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto and Halo, which are amongst the most expensive video games ever made, with development budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars. But video games have also become much m

Melanie (Mel) Langlotz is the founder and CEO of Geo AR Games, a game design studio that utilises augmented reality for “creating digital experiences that positively impact the world, fostering education and empowerment with simulations and serious games.”

Climate change and natural hazards are hard topics to think about. Most people understand the risks in theory, but that doesn’t mean they know what they’d actually do when those risks arrive on their doorstep.