Culture & History

Psychologists have a name for what happens when a story pulls you in: narrative transportation. Once a person is "transported" into a story, they process information differently and the situations they encounter get encoded in the brain the same way a lived experience does. It's why storytelling outperforms straight data when the goal is to reveal new perspectives.

Benefit Sharing Compass is GeoAR's interactive game exploring how researchers and communities can build fairer, more respectful partnerships in genetic research.

Games give us a way to practise beyond our senses. We can balance planets in orbit, fast-forward a coastline through a century of rising seas, or stand at the moment a species vanishes and understand, what we should have done differently… before it happens in real life.