Build data can quickly scale to gigabytes and terabytes of data. The field is complicated because teams use various file formats to design, build, and operate a building or facility. Teams often need to upload the entire file to proprietary rendering tools before showing off a new design or collaborating on schedules. These files can be even more complex when building large-scale digital twins of entire cities like Helsinki or Singapore.

Bentley Systems hopes to change that. At a tech demo event in London, Bentley showed off a new 3D streaming codec for the infrastructure metaverse called 3DFT. It is already running on the Epic Unreal Engine and Bentley plans to support other platforms in the future.

3DFT is not the first format for transmission…