Cintoo has introduced Cintoo Workspace, a collaborative environment for project teams to meet and make decisions inside digital twins generated from 3D scan data. The company said the application is cloud-connected to the Cintoo platform and runs on Unreal Engine, allowing participants to join real-time review sessions from a desktop, a VR headset or an immersive room.
The launch addresses a familiar divide in reality-capture workflows. Organizations are collecting more scan data, but the people who need to review it are often in different locations. Cintoo describes current alternatives as either unstructured meetings in shared 3D spaces, where participants can lose track of one another, or video calls in which team members watch a single screen-shared walkthrough at reduced resolution. Decisions then move into email, further meetings or costly site visits, according to the company.
Reviewing scan data rather than design models alone
Most collaboration tools are built around design models. Cintoo Workspace instead works with scan data captured by terrestrial and mobile scanners, 360 cameras and drones, and it can combine that reality data with BIM or CAD models. This lets teams review a site as it exists and compare actual conditions with the design, the company said. The application is intended for projects that need to examine captured conditions rather than rely only on planned geometry.
Guided collaboration modeled on a site walk
Workspace includes guided collaboration designed to resemble a structured site walk. One person leads the review, while participants can choose to follow the leader and still explore the digital twin independently. When an item needs attention, the leader can bring the group to a specific location. Role indicators, avatars and a radar help participants stay oriented, and shared annotations, measurements and issue features allow decisions to be recorded within the digital twin.
Dace Campbell, Cintoo’s product and business manager for XR and metaverse, said that occupying the same 3D space does not by itself constitute working together. In his view, teams need the structure of a real site walk: someone leads, people can break away to check details, and everyone regroups to discuss. Conducting that process in real scan data, using each participant’s preferred device, is what makes remote reviews work, he said. Campbell added that this approach can support quicker, more confident decisions.
The product is positioned for project teams that need to inspect the same captured site conditions remotely. Cintoo’s description focuses on the review session itself: joining from different devices, following a leader, exploring details, regrouping around issues and documenting findings in context. The company presents these functions as a way to give remote reviews more structure than an open 3D meeting or a passive screen share.
Cintoo Workspace is available now, according to the company’s launch announcement. The offering combines real-time collaborative review with the Cintoo platform’s cloud connection and supports data from common reality-capture sources alongside BIM or CAD models.