GuardianGamer boosts child safety in digital playgrounds like Minecraft and Roblox | The DeanBeat

GuardianGamer has a solution for worried parents who want to support their kids’ social gaming activity while ensuring safety in digital playgrounds like Minecraft and Roblox. GuardianGamer ought to pique the interest of a lot of parents, considering that Minecraft is having a moment. A Minecraft Movie, based on the popular sandbox Microsoft game, has generated $570 million at the box office in two weeks while Roblox has 380 million monthly active users. Back in December, Microsoft said Minecraft had 204.33 million monthly active, with 20.6% under 15 years old (approximately 42 million young players worldwide). The Los Gatos, California-based gaming startup, founded by parents with four kids, offers a cloud gaming solution that allows kids to play games while being monitored by GuardianGamer, which records videos of gameplay sessions, uses AI to pick out the highlights and sends them to parents. That AI part has gotten a lot better in recent months as generative AI has made it so muc ... Read full article.