Grimshaw Moves to Inevidesk VDI Platform
Grimshaw has completed a firm‑wide migration of its UK and European design teams onto Inevidesk’s virtual desktop infrastructure, replacing a centralized rack of physical workstations with cloud‑based virtual desktops. After a pilot deployment for its visualisation team in 2024, the firm scaled the solution to roughly 220 designers. The VDI platform delivers true workstation‑level GPU performance while eliminating the weeks‑long staging and imaging cycles of traditional hardware. This shift addresses chronic GPU contention, inconsistent performance, and rising operational costs associated with conventional VDI solutions.
Q3D Sensing Unveils AuraGO
Q3D Sensing announced the AuraGO, a compact add‑on LiDAR scanner that attaches to smartphones and tablets. The device promises centimetre‑level accuracy and a working range of 0.5 m to 30 m, delivering roughly 100 times the coverage of built‑in phone LiDAR. AuraGO...
Hexagon Multivista Connects to Revizto
Hexagon Multivista has integrated its Analyze deviation‑detection service with Revizto’s BIM collaboration platform, enabling users to push clash and deviation data directly into Revizto’s issue log. The workflow lets project managers select individual or grouped deviations from reality‑capture scans and...
Autodesk’s $200m Bet on Spatial AI
Autodesk announced a $200 million strategic investment in World Labs, the spatial‑intelligence AI startup co‑founded by Stanford AI pioneer Fei‑Fei Li, as part of a $1 billion funding round that also includes Nvidia and AMD. The deal grants Autodesk an advisory role and...
Vectorworks Acquires iPad App Developer Morpholio
Vectorworks has acquired Morpholio, the creator of the iPad sketching trio Trace, Board and Journal, bringing the mobile tools under its desktop CAD and BIM umbrella. The three apps will continue as separate subscriptions on the App Store, while Vectorworks...
Cintoo Embraces Ricoh-Native 360 Data
Cintoo has launched a new 360 Edition that natively ingests Ricoh 360° video and merges it with 3D scans, BIM and CAD models in a single cloud‑based environment. The platform offers unlimited automatic camera‑path processing, manual alignment tools, and Gaussian‑splat visualisation for...
Esri and Pix4D Build Reality Capture Workflow
Esri and Pix4D have linked the PIX4Dcatch smartphone app with ArcGIS Online, creating a terrestrial‑mapping workflow that captures high‑precision 3D scans of trenches and subsurface infrastructure. The integration uses a real‑time kinematics (RTK) device to georeference scans at centimeter‑level accuracy,...
