It all started with two airplanes, landing side by side at Dubai Airport; one arriving from Saint Petersburg, carrying Director Ali Faraj (Company CEO and Co-Founder), who had just finished his higher studies in Film Direction; the other bringing Engineer Feras Khoursheed (Company CTO and Co-Founder) from his native Syria. Both searching for new work opportunities, in the tumultous world of professional media solutions, both hoping to bring their innovative new thinking to reality in the capital city of their field. The Destination, was the United Arab Emirates...
In those days, things were changing fast. A media renaissance had overtaken the Arab world, and Dubai was the capital of the new communications empire. Director Ali Faraj had a vision, to present himself to TV channels in a way no one had thought of before. The idea to take the power of the CV from papers and words, into a completely new interactive experience. And, so the concept of the Electronic CV was born. But who would do this? And who could do this? This was a hard question to answer; finding a person with expertise in multiple technical fields was a daunting task by itself. Just as essential, and even more rare, was to find a collaborator with the ability to understand and translate the ideas of an unconventional director's vision into a work that reflected the exact artistic perspective envisioned in the abstraction of an extremely creative mind. You can call it coincidence, you can call it destiny. We simply call it the will of God. The two partners, after many meetings and discussions, decided to work on the Electronic CV project. Containing the entire spectrum of media, including movies, sound tracks, 3D animation, scripting and programming, it was a huge task to undertake, for that period of time, and riskier than most new companies would chance on.
During the project, it became clear rapidly that there was a high level of understanding and co-operation between the partners from the start. Ideas that seemed too complicated for production, created in the freedom of the Director's limitless vision, were translated with great success into electronic reality, overcoming the boundaries and constrictions of technology with innovative new solutions to common problems. The project was a huge success; it possessed the level of aesthetic achievement demanded by the director, and the robust technological framework the engineer considered his metier. It was clear that the union of their skills, experiences and knowledge had huge potential, and and together their future was much brighter than what any job or a position individually could provide. Therefore they decided that this was the best starting point to establish a successful company in the field of digital solutions services. And on the 2nd of January of the year 2000, the first candle in 4D Vision's history was lit. And with every passing year, 4D Vision has managed to make its flame of technical creativity and innovative design grow larger and brighter, uncovering further hidden possibilities in digital media technology, and bringing them to the forefront for the world to see.