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There's a hidden world beneath the sand. Geo A.R.'s Sandflat Heroes AR app brings Aotearoa's sandflats to life before your eyes.

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.

What if we could run the future before it happens? Feed it a flood. Throw a heatwave at a city. Watch the carbon add up, brick by brick. That is the promise of a digital twin of Earth. A living model that updates in real time, letting us test the future without breaking the present. And the race to build it is already underway.