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Notifications give signed-in users one calm place to review important activity across Visual Space. The center favors updates that help you act or understand what changed, then takes you straight back to the relevant work. It is **not a second inbox for every event**. Chat, Direct Messages, and update indicators on joined spaces or activities keep their own attention signals. This separation lets the notification center remain useful without repeating every message or local update.

Notification preferences let you decide which kinds of updates may enter your personal [notification center](notifications.md). They belong to your account, so you can keep one calm default across Visual Space and make focused exceptions for the places that need more or less attention.

The Notification Center gives signed-in users one low-noise place to catch important activity and return to the work behind it. It brings together selected content, space, recognition, engagement, role, and Visual Space notices without replacing the unread indicators that belong to chats and direct messages.

Notifications keeps important activity in one calm in-app center while leaving conversation unread signals with Chat and Direct Messages. Use this guide to understand the center, choose what may reach it, or follow a complete catch-up and preference-setting journey.

Use this walkthrough to enter an ad-hoc meeting from an activity or a direct-message conversation, confirm that you are connected, and leave without confusing the meeting stage with the call itself. The entry point changes with the conversation, but the rest of the meeting experience is shared. Follow the preparation first, take the activity or direct-message branch, then continue with the common checkpoints.

Use this walkthrough when you want to present a display or application window, confirm that the meeting received it, and arrange the stage around the content. You will also learn how to move between several simultaneous shares, replace your source, and stop presenting without leaving the call.

Use this walkthrough when you want to stay in a meeting while reading, editing, or moving elsewhere in Visual Space. You will open the full stage once, keep a useful feed nearby in picture-in-picture, and return to the stage without starting or joining the call again. **Closing the stage and leaving the meeting are different actions.** The stage close control returns you to the workspace while the call continues. The red `Leave meeting` control disconnects you, removes the stage or picture-in-pi

Use this walkthrough to bring eligible people into an active meeting, respond to an invitation, take part without interrupting, and verify what changed in the room. The final section is reserved for space owners and members with chat-management permission because muting or removing another person is **room moderation**, not ordinary participation.

Live apps let an activity meeting work with Visual Space content as a shared, selectable feed. This walkthrough takes you from opening `Live Apps` through choosing or creating work, arranging it on the stage, switching between active apps, and ending the shared feed cleanly.

The meeting stage gives cameras, shared screens, audio participants, and shared work one flexible place to appear. It sits over the Visual Space workspace you were already using, so changing the meeting view does not discard the activity, conversation, or work underneath it. The important idea is that **the stage arranges feeds, not merely people**. Choose the feed that matters now, then move between an all-room view and a more concentrated view without changing the meeting itself.