by lorischwartz | Aug 19, 2015 | Blog
Something has been digitally gnawing at me since last March when an article appeared in the New York Times Sunday Review titled “If an Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Even Know?” And, not weeks later I heard a story on NPR “Robot Reporters: Software Turns Raw Data...
by lorischwartz | Aug 2, 2015 | Blog
“You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!” Dr. Suess. Oh The Places You Will Go Last year, I was invited to speak in Abu Dhabi, which for the curious means, “Father of The Gazelle.” My excitement at the invitation...
by lorischwartz | Jun 17, 2015 | Blog
Tales From A Recovering Binge Addict A few months ago, the independent accounting firm of Schwartz, Schwartz and Schwartz asked some of my girls friends in the TV biz, what were they watching and a few of my female friends responded overwhelmingly withOutlanders, one...
by lorischwartz | Jun 15, 2015 | Blog
Perhaps, if you are into pop/rock classics, you’ll remember Joe South’s“Walk A Mile in My Shoes” (also covered by Elvis.) But what does this have to do with #VR? Consider that as you read the lyric. If I could be you And you could be me For just one hour If we...
by lorischwartz | May 20, 2015 | Blog
As we all know, immersive experiences aren’t new. Perhaps you’re old enough to remember being trampled by a herd of horses of the American West as you held on to the railing at Disneyland’s Circle-Vision 360°watching “America the Beautiful.” Or, maybe the 3D Captain...
by lorischwartz | May 4, 2015 | Blog
BIOSHOCK. It was literally game changing, back in 2007. Game Informermagazine named creator Ken Levine “Storyteller of the Decade” in 2010. Storyteller not game designer. Something shifted for me as I plunged myself into the depths of Bioshock. I wasn’t just in a...