Cintoo has launched Cintoo Workspace, a collaboration application for project teams to review digital twins built from real-world scan data. The company says the Unreal Engine-based application is cloud-connected to its platform and supports real-time sessions from a desktop, a VR headset or an immersive room.
The product targets a common mismatch: organizations are capturing more reality data, but the teams that need to review it are rarely in the same place. Cintoo describes current alternatives as unstructured shared 3D meetings, where participants can lose track of one another, or screen-shared video walkthroughs that leave viewers passively watching a low-resolution view. Decisions then move into emails, meetings and costly site visits.
Scan data and guided sessions
According to Cintoo, Workspace works with data from terrestrial and mobile scanners, 360 cameras and drones, and can combine that data with BIM or CAD models. This allows teams to review the site as captured and compare it with the design. Cintoo positions the product differently from collaboration tools built mainly around design models.
Guided collaboration is central to the offering. One person leads a review; participants can choose to follow the leader while remaining free to explore, and the leader can gather everyone at a specific location when attention is needed. Role indicators, avatars and a radar are intended to keep participants oriented. Shared annotations, measurements and issue features allow discussion and decisions to take place inside the digital twin.
Dace Campbell, Cintoo's Product & Business Manager for XR & Metaverse, said that occupying the same 3D space does not by itself amount to working together. He said teams need a structure similar to a real site walk, with a leader, opportunities to examine details and points at which everyone regroups. Cintoo says carrying out that process in real scan data, on each participant's preferred device, is what makes remote reviews work and can support faster, more confident decisions.