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. Participants can join a real-time session from a desktop, a VR headset or an immersive room. The launch addresses a common mismatch: organizations are capturing growing volumes of reality data, while the teams that need to review it are often in different locations.
Existing review approaches have limits. Shared 3D meetings can be unstructured, with participants losing track of one another, while video calls often leave viewers watching a single low-resolution, screen-shared walkthrough. Decisions may then move into emails, additional meetings and costly site visits. Cintoo positions Workspace as an alternative built around scan data rather than only design models.
Workspace is an Unreal Engine application cloud-connected to the Cintoo platform. It works with scan data from terrestrial and mobile scanners, 360 cameras and drones, alongside BIM or CAD models. That combination allows teams to review the site as it actually is and compare conditions with the design. The application is intended to support high-fidelity digital twins streamed directly from scan data.
Guided collaboration
Workspace’s guided collaboration is designed to mirror how teams work on site. One person guides the review. Participants can opt 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 help keep participants oriented. Shared annotations, measurements and issue features are designed to place decision-making inside the digital twin.
Dace Campbell, Cintoo’s Product & Business Manager, XR & Metaverse, said that simply being in the same 3D space is not the same as working together. According to Campbell, teams need the structure of a real site walk: someone leads, people can break off to check details, and everyone regroups to discuss. He said conducting that process in real scan data, using each participant’s preferred device, is what makes remote reviews work and can enable quicker, more confident decisions.
The launch adds a collaboration layer to Cintoo’s platform for reality data. Cintoo Workspace is intended to bring the review process into the digital twin itself, so that discussion, measurement and issue documentation occur in the same environment as the scanned site. The company presents the application as a way to structure virtual reviews around actual site conditions while accommodating different devices and data sources. It is aimed at project teams that need to review reality data without gathering at the site.