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Virtuality – Machinery – Reality – Events – Cre’activity – Business

Altair Twin : Virtuality

• Video Games ? Our “too much” ones : Incomplete list of games that made us fall in love. Just to give you an idea of what we like.
• The Saloons of “Red Dead Redemption” : These saloons are perfect. Ultra-realistic, like the opuses in this game. All that’s missing are… cabaret, street, dance artists
• Virtual Viewer : We can do everything – go virtually anywhere. The question is : where?
• Altair Twin & Epitech : Great news: Epitech is interested to create with us the ‘beta’ of Altair Twin !
• Facebook on the Horizon : Why is it almost a good idea? But only almost?
• Return of the Obra Dinn : A great game, made by a great multi-talented artist: does it have a place in a theatre? At 20 °, no. At 21 ° yes!
• Ugly Video Games : Pitiful, violent, stupid, video games? Actually not at all. On the contrary
• Caribbean Dreams : We want to see Jorge & Kitty dancing Capoeira on the white sand of one of your magnificent Pirate Games !
• Technology : what for ? : Science for science is good when you’re a scientist. When we are not, we use science. At Altair, we have bright ideas for using 5G and IA at max.
• Run & Roll : How to play with The Rules of Fast FPS in a theatre?
• Cyberpunk 2077 ~ the legend of the two boxers : What is the relationship between Cyberpunk 2077, two boxers and Altair? The atmosphere. Street artists. Punk and motion capture.
• Should we stay or should we go? : Let’s take 10 years in advance and assume that there is a virtual theatre that can be in a game. How to organize your virtual life? Before talking about finances, you have to be sure that the theatre will be successful. How to do ?
• Dreaming around Star Citizen : What could a virtual theatre do in this immense project of online virtual world that is Star Citizen (! Jules Verne mode activated)
• Playing with geeks : or how to value the culture of the net, carried by the geeks. This is a base of the Altair project, because the Geeks are us, our children, our future and they deserve a real place in the world of culture
• What is : motion capture ? : how does it work, what can be achieved with and especially: is our project feasible with new technologies?
• Real & Virtual Worlds : how to achieve the fusion between the world of the living art performance and that of the video game? What are the benefits for each other?

Machinery

• What show, for what game ? : The secret of success will be to find the right shows for the right games….. and even the right excerpts… otherwise, it will be artificial – and failed.
• YouTubers : Not using YouTubers when talking to young people is professional misconduct, all right. And use them how?
• The Time to Love : It’s about retaining viewers, giving them time to like companies and different genres of shows.
• “I used to be an adventurer…” : the adventure, a huge common point to exploit between the world of the games and the world of the living spectacle.
• 9 days of programing : To speak is good. Showing an example is better
• †What is : Altair Twin ? : a pretty simple answer for a really complex question
• All. All the time : an idea of programming.
• Technical trades : the technical professions: discover them to create a unique link between Altair and its audience
• Damned Dreamers of Altair : who are we, why, what is Altair ? Many answers in a small post
• The Forgotten Creators Part I : Fantastic Composers : no arts, great games, great shows, without great creators. In the motor elements of Altair, we want to highlight all these creators still ignored.
• A Real Theatre : Can not we be content to make better use of motion capture rooms to create virtual shows? The answer is … in the article. And the answer is: No.
• Few… problems : Games have rules, unwritten, but accepted. Placing live performance shows in games breaks a rule. Some other points too, reviewed, not to neglect.
• A Story of doors : The metaphor of the doors to never forget to let all the talents come, with only one condition: their talent. Not their friends, their relations, their parents. No. Their talent.
• Concept : two major poles / five links: this presents the Altair engine
• The Team : us ...
• Co-working : work together to create synergy
• The main points : the subject is the title
• Highlights : the strengths of the project
• The next level of Entertainment : the summary of the project concept

Altair : Reality

• Arabian Nights : What happened to the tales told by Scheherazade?
• Let’s play : showcase the musical creation in the video games, show the specialized orchestras “video games”, the concerts, link with the different musical styles
• The Fools from the Cold : we don’t know if The Slava’s Snow Show is a real circus. But we know it is an incredible show.
• The Nutcracker : In the series: “Christmas show”, here is a great classic of dance that we can’t forget
• Don Juan : a piece or a part of us? A very modern part of us?
• Age of the Public : 10 months. Will you believe me ?
• Madama Butterfly : What can be added to this title? That this Opera will be the source of a thousand other works, in a thousand other genres.
• Percussions de Strasbourg : A company that loves music, dance and instruments: a dream!
• Falconry : birds, horses, are also artists who produce incredible effects when they are on stage.
• Jazz Time : for the pleasure, for our souls, for their brilliance & eternal modernity
• Rammstein and us : when the music is so loud that it is a natural show, a story. Rammstein, a group to enter the 21 ° and Altair Twin
• Journey to the Center of the Earth : When a dance company takes care of Jules Verne … we are amazed!
• Aranjuez : a city, a royal garden, a great composer, extraordinary musicians: that’s all Aranjuez.
• El amor brujo : incredible music signed Manuel de Falla, music of passion and love to death, from which come so many shows!
• Sounds from the Sahara : an idea of beauty, majesty, grandeur.
• Tango : Tango is not just a dance: it’s all Buenos Aires become an art of living, in all the difficulty of life. Ready for the virtual trip?
• Puppets & Co : † Do not underestimate these shows !
• Capoeira : More than dance, capoeira is a martial dance: everything we could see and do extraordinary by welcoming, for a long time, Capoeira
• BoOm, a so cute show : Favorite of the day ! A wonderful show for babies. Its name is BoOm …. and it’s too cute and awesome. A show “Entre eux deux rives” company.
• †Oriental Soul : The oriental soul, I can not define it. By cons, I can love the artists! And prove that the East is largely in modernity.
• Henry VI – 18 hours of Rock n’ roll : Do you want to know what a real theatrical staging unleashes the crowds of young people?
• Unexpected : can classical dance still surprise & excite us ?
• Phare Circus : featured company, a favourite and an example of what can be the contemporary circus
• About circus : what’s new ?
• Enthusiastic Companies : these first big show companies that joined the project.

Boring Events

• Event : Poetry Contest : to be where we are not expected, to valorize this thousand-year-old art, and to give it back a major role
• Today : Juggling. : artists, performances, VR headsets: the new circus has arrived !
• Impossible – Legendary – Mythical : 3 words, 3 levels, 3 events
• Extravaganza : Visual Arts Event. to showcase all the visual arts that enchant show scenes and game scenes, what better than a Festival?
• Tell us a Strange Story – Event : An event so that everything is as bizarre as it is strange. Then we start to love stories again
• The No/Yes Life Festival : how to imagine a Festival that would connect, finally, the bad guys No Life with the nice Yes Life? Can we understand each other? To talk to ? Play together to win? How to integrate professionals and what interest it will have for them.
• Events : let’s create a new way : the principle of rising festivals, from the Impossible Festival to the mythical Festival; rethink the concepts of events.

Cre Activity

“Jules Verne” Mode Activated

• Are you vintage ? : okay that’s too much. If Altair was a classical theatre, it would be ‘too much’…
• Opera. Misson Failed : If we do nothing, this title will be a prophecy. Then let’s do something!
• The Bells of Freedom : is it a single verse of poetry ?
• Machines of the Island : a complete crush of love on an extraordinary company: La Machine, in Nantes.
• Workshop : sound effects. a workshop to learn the basics of this art of sound… And the opportunity to enter the theatre through the artists’ entrance.
• St Barbara’s Day : the perfect opportunity, at least for the French, to celebrate the fireworks, and we won’t hesitate to share.
• Super … Hot : This is not a game like any other. It is a game that plays directly with you the player. One of the games that made us want to create Altair.
• Dance Me To the End of Love : build a program, this is done by themes. Here’s one, wonderful.
• AA’s Bizarre Adventure : The common point ? madness, burlesque, love of the unbelievable. And the secret of the family … when we have problems
• Looking for Joy : When art makes you laugh and makes you want to live, what’s more beautiful?
• De Rerum Natura : how to build a year-round program around a powerful theme
• La musique de Crypt of the Necrodancer : An excellent article by Mickael Blum – musicologist on this music.
• THE : Versatile Award : our great pride of this end of summer – and a new way of communication: a post of pure happiness
• Nominated for the Liebster : A pride, yes. And another way to communicate. Breaking the barriers with the public, possible?
• Beloved Manga : We are fan. How to bring these magnificent manga into Altair’s programming? That’s the daily problem.
• Lovers, we need you : Lovers of everything, shows, arts, artists: tell us who you love, extend our knowledge
• Matriochka’s game : This article is about all those stories that your players create from your stories: a great lesson in generous and exciting creativity that they give us all.
• Old Modernity Vs Young Creativity : Revisit the idea of ​​modernity, to arrive at the one that pulsates with youth (the true one, that of true youth), which we call our wishes and which is called: creativity
• Impossible Festival : how to stage an amazing Impossible Festival, which mixes real and virtual?
• Let’s imagine the launch of the First Season : Think about everything, put everything on the stage and enthuse the audience.
• Cre Activity : Set the principles: encourage creativity, in all possible forms

Business

• Steam, Epic, Stadia : 3 platforms in competition. What about Altair Twin? Altair cheats and plays backwards.
• The AI/VR meeting : to be aware of the latest developments is just fundamental!
• Where is my money ? : is it so difficult to make money with a theatre ?
• The Choice : to help our customers is The basis of our job. Isn’t it ?
• Station F & F for Femme : report of a great day & amazing meetings
• Turkish Ice Cream : Perfection is in the details
• Insiders : Different ways to seduce our audience…
• Open Rehearsals : See a rehearsal: an dream easy to realize, and so effective in terms of com’ and advertising
• Prohibition’s Power : Use the ban to accentuate the desire to come : possible/impossible ?
• Com & Advertising : All techniques are old and worn. New means will have to be found. Overview of the question and our ideas. Wonderful ideas. Obviously.
• Market Research 2 : the secure form : an online questionnaire to better understand what we are proposing, and tell us what you would like.
• Video Game Business : identify the business of the video game industry, take stock of its progress and its potential.
• Money Money Money : Altair’s challenge: to be a financial windfall when you think it will be a financial pitfall.

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