NextNav will help people find their locations in skyscrapers.

NextNav unveils Unity plugin for fixing vertical positions in mobile location-based games

When you play location-based games like Pokémon Go, you can’t hunt for creatures on vertical levels in a skyscraper. You can only hunt for creatures on the ground floor. But that could change, as 3D geolocation service NextNav announces a plugin for vertical positioning in the Unity game engine.

Sunnyvale, California-based NextNav said the move will enable millions of game and app developers to easily access its Pinnacle service. This would enable games to fix the position of a player in vertical environments, such as skyscrapers, apartment buildings, or malls. NextNav makes it so the game will know what floor you’re on, as well as your coordinates.

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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.