Reality Cloud Studio
Roles
Rocco Ghielmini - Senior Frontend Engineer
Dec, 2020 - Aug, 2021
Technologies Used
Collaborating on terabytes of capture data
Reality Cloud Studio is Hexagon’s cloud product for uploading, processing, and sharing 3D scans. Working with the Ginetta AG team, I helped shape the frontend experience so surveyors and engineers can explore meshes, point clouds, and panoramic imagery directly in the browser.
Problem
Customers were exporting scans to desktop tools, mailing drives, and emailing screenshots to collaborators. Integrating Hexagon’s LuciadRIA WebGL engine into a modern SPA proved difficult, and the existing UI made even simple reviews feel slow and fragile.
My Contributions
- Integrated LuciadRIA controllers with declarative React patterns, abstracting the imperative 3D viewers behind composable hooks and components.
- Led a critical refactor that stabilized rendering lifecycles, preventing race conditions between WebGL scenes and the SPA router.
Outcomes
In the same workspace users review capture data, annotate issues, and trigger automated meshing jobs without leaving the browser. The refactored architecture keeps the viewer responsive even with multi-gigabyte scenes and enabled a public launch of Reality Cloud Studio.