How can you show an MCBrowserViewController on a scene in cocos2d? - cocos2d-iphone

I'm porting a code to ios7 in wich I used old GKPeerPickerController and cocos2d to make a multiplayer game over Bluetooth.
In the new version, I'm using the MCBrowserViewController, but im unable to show it on the scene.
Im calling it with
[[[CCDirector sharedDirector] view] addSubview: browserVC];
where browserVC is an initiallized MCBrowserViewController but as this is only to show UIViews I get the error
Cannot initialize a parameter of type 'UIView *' with an rvalue of
type 'MCBrowserViewController *'
Is there any way to show the MCBrowserViewController on the scene?
Thanks in advance!

Should work
[[CCDirector sharedDirector] presentViewController:browserVC animated:YES completion:nil];

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