Cintoo has launched Cintoo Workspace, a collaboration application that lets project teams meet and make decisions together inside high-fidelity digital twins streamed directly from 3D scan data.
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 open-ended meeting in a shared 3D space.
The review problem the product targets
According to Cintoo, organizations are capturing more reality data than ever, but the teams who need to review it are rarely in the same place. The options currently used for such reviews include unstructured meetings in shared 3D spaces, where participants risk losing track of one another, and video calls in which everyone passively watches one person's low-resolution, screen-shared walkthrough. Decision-making then tends to move into follow-up emails, additional meetings and costly site visits.
Scan data as the base layer
Cintoo says most collaboration tools are built around design models. Cintoo Workspace is an Unreal Engine application cloud-connected to the Cintoo platform and works on 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 really is and compare it with how it was designed.
How a guided session runs
- One person guides the review, and participants can opt in to be guided by the leader while staying free to explore the twin on their own.
- When something needs attention, the leader can gather everyone at one specific location.
- Role indicators, avatars and a radar keep participants oriented during the session.
- Shared annotations, measurements and issue features let decisions be recorded inside the digital twin.
Because sessions can be joined from a desktop, a VR headset or an immersive room, participants are not tied to a single viewing device or a single physical location.
Company position
Dace Campbell, Cintoo's Product & Business Manager for XR & Metaverse, said that simply being in the same 3D space is not the same as working together. In his view, 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 that out in real scan data, using each participant's preferred device, is what makes remote reviews work and, according to Campbell, ultimately enables quicker and more confident decisions.
The claims about faster and more confident decision-making are Cintoo's own. The announcement does not include measured results from customer deployments, and the performance of guided reviews relative to existing review workflows has not been documented publicly.