Game Insight's Guns of Boom has an ARKit app that lets you spectate games.
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Game Insight offers something new for Guns of Boom fans: Watching in AR

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Game Insight has had more than 10 million downloads for Guns of Boom, and now it has figured out a novel way to increase the numbers of people watching multiplayer matches of this mobile first-person shooter.

Using Apple’s ARKit, Game Insight created an augmented reality demo that enables someone to view a 3D scene of the action from an overhead perspective. The screen of an iPad or iPhone becomes a window into viewing the action from any perspective. You can move the iPad around to view the 3D scene from different angles. This is the sort of cool AR livestreaming that could increase player engagement, said Game Insight CEO Anatoly Ropotov in an interview with GamesBeat.

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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.