Cintoo has officially launched Cintoo Workspace, a collaboration application for project teams that need to review digital twins streamed directly from 3D scan data. The company describes the product as an Unreal Engine application cloud-connected to the Cintoo platform, allowing participants to meet and make decisions together inside high-fidelity representations of a site.
Workspace sessions can be joined in real time from a desktop, a VR headset or an immersive room. According to Cintoo, built-in guided collaboration is designed to give virtual reviews the structure of a real site walk rather than leaving participants to navigate a shared 3D space without direction.
Designed around scan data, not only design models
Cintoo says organizations are capturing more reality data than ever, while the teams that need to review it are rarely in the same place. It identifies two common alternatives: unstructured meetings in shared 3D spaces, where people risk losing track of one another, and video calls in which participants passively watch a single person’s low-resolution, screen-shared walkthrough. Decisions may then be handled through follow-up emails, meetings and costly site visits.
Most collaboration tools, Cintoo argues, are built around design models. Workspace instead works with scan data captured by terrestrial and mobile scanners, 360 cameras and drones, alongside BIM or CAD models. That allows teams to review the site as it actually is and compare existing conditions with the design.
Guided reviews with shared annotations
The guided collaboration feature is intended to mirror how teams work on site. One person leads the review. Participants can opt in to be guided by the leader while remaining free to explore, and the leader can gather everyone at a specific location when something needs attention. Role indicators, avatars and a radar help keep participants oriented.
Shared annotations, measurements and issue features mean decisions are made inside the digital twin, according to Cintoo. They are listed alongside role indicators, avatars and radar as part of the Workspace review environment.
“Simply being in the same 3D space isn’t the same as working together,” said Dace Campbell, Cintoo’s Product & Business Manager, XR & Metaverse. He said teams need the structure of a real site walk, in which someone leads, people can break off to check details and everyone regroups to discuss. Carrying out that process in real scan data, on the device each participant prefers, is what Cintoo says makes remote reviews work and can lead to quicker, more confident decisions.
The launch adds a collaboration layer to Cintoo’s reality-capture platform. Workspace is available through the company’s platform, with sessions intended for teams reviewing captured site conditions across desktop, VR and immersive-room environments.