Mobile games are played by more than a billion people worldwide, but esports on smartphones have not yet experienced anything near the growth that the traditional—PC, PS4, and Xbox One—esports industry has seen over the past couple of years. Now, Guns of Boom, a first-person shooter game, is trying to buck that trend, with help from an industry-first augmented reality viewing component.
Guns of Boom’s first esports season will close this weekend when eight teams compete for a $120,000 prize pool at ESL’s Intel Esports Arena in Los Angeles.
Game Insight, the developers of the Guns of Boom mobile game, debuted an AR spectator mode back in 2017.