NextNav believes vertical location is the future of geolocation.
NextNav believes vertical location is the future of geolocation.
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NextNav adds vertical location to Atlas: Earth mobile game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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NextNav has integrated its vertical location service into an upcoming mobile game called Atlas: Earth from developer Atlas Reality. With it, game developers will be able to pinpoint players in three dimensions, like what floor they’re on in a skyscraper.

The Sunnyvale, California-based NextNav considers its Pinnacle vertical location service to be the next generation of the Global Positioning System (GPS), which gives us a two-dimensional location on every smartphone. Using built-in smartphone barometers and other technology for 3D geolocation, NextNav has figured out how to capture our locations in 3D.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.