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We are looking for a highly driven Sales Manager to start 3D expansion in Scandinavia.

Do you want to be in the forefront of 3D?

Job description 
You will have the opportunity to work in a rapidly growing organization with an international approach. The successful candidate will be responsible for selling 3D production services to media, advertising and corporate clients, initially in Sweden, preferably based in Stockholm.

The job will include travel, mainly in the Nordic Countries. Stereoscape’s closely-knit team is international and multi-lingual, and the working environment is fast-paced and rewarding.

Desired skills & experience 
We are looking for a highly entrepreneurial spirit to join our team and make a career in a fast-growing business. You are highly motivated and self-driven, identifying new opportunities and following through with tenacity. Previous experience in developing relationships and cold calling for new business is critical for success in this role. The ideal candidate also possesses:

• A keen interest in the exciting new era of 3D 
• An existing network of contacts within the Swedish/Nordic media industry 
• Technical understanding of production, post-production and content distribution 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and negotiation skills 
• Native in Swedish, fluency in English 
• Fluent written and spoken communication skills in German or French are considered an asset

Send your CV and an application to patrik @ stereoscape.com by Sunday, 29th January 2012.

Stereoscape is a rapidly growing 3D services company, with headquarters in Helsinki, sales offices in Stockholm and London, and dedicated representation in St. Petersburg.

We provide 3D production services for film & television projects, commercials, product launches and events. Pioneering in stereoscopic 3D since 2007, our expertise ranges from camera-captured 3D and 2D-3D post conversion to concept creation, workflow design, project supervision, display system optimization, training and consulting. We are experts in both glasses-based and glasses-free 3D.

Stereoscape talks with one of its key collaborators, a leading researcher in stereoscopic 3D imaging – Dr. Jukka Häkkinen from Finland’s Aalto University

Aalto University’s Department of Media Technology in Finland is one of Stereoscape’s key partners in the academic world. For today’s blog post we interviewed Dr Jukka Häkkinen, one of Finland’s leading researchers in the field of stereoscopic 3D, and a long-term partner of Stereoscape.

Häkkinen started his 3D journey all the way back in 1992, when he decided to write his masters thesis on stereoscopic 3D at the suggestion of his professor. Based in the Department of Psychology, the research project started by looking at basics such as understanding the physical processes of human stereoscopic vision, including neurological factors, and so on. Häkkinen continued the research in his PhD, and was subsequently hired by Nokia where he spent ten years researching the effects of stereoscopic 3D technologies and imaging on people.

Häkkinen’s role at Nokia was mostly concentrated on exploring issues around 3D safety and viewing comfort. The work included measuring and recording test groups’ reactions on stereoscopic 3D imaging. Häkkinen noticed that people in test groups wanted to keep exploring the 3D content even after the official experiment was over, because it was “fun”.  This sparked his long-term interest in exploring the positive psychological impact of stereoscopic 3D content on people – or the “wow” effect, as most of us call it. What does it consist of? Why is 3D so much fun? For the past six-seven years, this has been his main research interest.

Häkkinen and his colleagues at Aalto University have been working closely with Stereoscape since the company’s inception in 2007. Stereoscape has been providing 3D content and production resources that Häkkinen’s team has employed for research purposes. On the other hand, Häkkinen’s analysis of the content has enabled Stereoscape to have a more scientific basis for determining vital parameters for 3D content production, for example optimizing image ‘depth’ for child viewers, understanding the audience’s physiological and psychological reactions to the footage, and so on.

Aalto University’s connections in the international research community have further benefited the rich collaborative relationship between Häkkinen and Stereoscape. The parties have a long-standing relationship with Japan’s Waseda University, who are pioneering in research areas such as 2D to 3D conversion.

Stereoscape’s CEO Tomi Luostarinen says the company is privileged to be working so closely with the scientific community.

”Dr Häkkinen’s pioneering research on 3D viewing experience serves as an important foundation for our 3D content creation practice” Luostarinen says, “it gives us a real advantage when producing content and advising our clients – we know what is comfortable for the viewers, and it’s a real priority for us”.

Recent selected publications from Dr Häkkinen:

M Pölönen, M Salmimaa, J Häkkinen (2011)
The effect of ambient illumination level to perceived autostereoscopic display quality and depth perception
Displays In Press.

J Takatalo, J Kaistinen, G Nyman, J Häkkinen (2011)
User Experience in 3D stereoscopic games.
Media Psychology Accepted for publication

M Pölönen, M Salmimaa, J Takatalo, J Häkkinen (2011)
Subjective Experiences of Watching Stereoscopic Avatar and U2 3D in a Cinema
Journal of Electronic Imaging Accepted for publication  

J Takatalo, J Häkkinen, J Kaistinen, G Nyman (2010)
Evaluating user experience in digital games: a psychological approach.
Journal of Digital Games Research 4: 1. 21-35  

S Kishi, S H Kim, T Shibata, T Kawai, J Häkkinen, J Takatalo, G Nyman (2010)
Scalable 3D image conversion of stereoscopic images for safety and comfort.
Journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers 64: 12. 1912-1920

J Häkkinen, J Takatalo, M Kilpeläinen, M Salmimaa, G Nyman (2009)
Determining limits to avoid double vision in an autostereoscopic display: Disparity and image element width.
Journal of the Society for Information Display 17: 5. 433-441