Cintoo has launched Cintoo Workspace, a collaboration application for project teams to meet and make decisions inside high-fidelity digital twins streamed directly from 3D scan data.
The company said teams can join a real-time session from a desktop, a VR headset or an immersive room. Built-in guided collaboration is intended to give virtual reviews the structure of a real site walk rather than an unstructured meeting in a shared 3D space.
Cintoo Workspace is an Unreal Engine application cloud-connected to the Cintoo platform. It works with scan data captured by terrestrial and mobile scanners, 360 cameras and drones, alongside BIM or CAD models. This allows teams to review a site as it actually is and compare it with how it was designed.
In a guided session, one person leads the review. Participants can opt in to follow 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 are designed to keep participants oriented. Shared annotations, measurements and issue features allow decisions to be made inside the digital twin.
Dace Campbell, Cintoo’s product and business manager for XR and metaverse, said simply being in the same 3D space is not the same as working together. He said teams need the structure of a real site walk, where someone leads, people can break off to check details and everyone regroups to discuss. Doing that in real scan data on participants’ preferred devices is what makes remote reviews work, he added, enabling quicker and more confident decisions.