Cintoo has officially launched Cintoo Workspace, a cloud-connected Unreal Engine application that lets project teams meet and make decisions inside high-fidelity digital twins streamed from 3D scan data.
Cintoo frames the product around organizations that capture growing volumes of reality data while the teams responsible for reviewing it are rarely in the same place. The company describes current alternatives as unstructured meetings in shared 3D spaces, where participants can lose track of one another, and video calls in which viewers passively watch one person’s low-resolution, screen-shared walkthrough. Decisions may then be handled through later emails, additional meetings or costly site visits.
Scan data rather than design models alone
Cintoo says most collaboration tools are built around design models. Workspace instead works on scan data captured by terrestrial and mobile scanners, 360 cameras and drones, and can combine that data with BIM or CAD models. The aim is to let teams review the site as it really is and compare actual conditions with the design.
Participants can join a real-time session from a desktop, a VR headset or an immersive room. Cintoo describes the collaboration as guided rather than merely shared: one person leads 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.
Orientation and in-context decisions
Workspace includes role indicators, avatars and a radar intended to keep everyone oriented. Shared annotations, measurements and issue features are designed to support decisions inside the digital twin, according to Cintoo.
The company says the structure mirrors a real site walk, in which a leader guides the group, people break off to check details and everyone regroups to discuss findings. Cintoo is presenting Workspace as a way to bring review and decision-making into the digital twin rather than leaving them to later correspondence or travel.
“Simply being in the same 3D space isn’t the same as working together,” said Dace Campbell, Cintoo’s Product & Business Manager, XR & Metaverse. He said teams need the structure of a real site walk and that conducting such reviews in real scan data, on participants’ preferred devices, is what makes remote reviews work and can lead to quicker, more confident decisions.
The announcement focuses on the product’s workflow and collaboration features. It does not provide independent performance data, customer results or a schedule for broader availability.