Meetings bring voice, video, shared screens, and supported live apps into the activity or direct-message conversation where you are already talking. Start a room when a discussion needs more than text, or join the room that is already running.
You can keep working elsewhere in Visual Space while the call continues. Close the stage to make room; use Leave meeting to hang up.
Find Your Room
An activity has one active meeting, shown as a Voice entry beneath that activity. Eligible members can join it without waiting for an invitation. Different activities can hold meetings at the same time, so a project review does not occupy the whole space.
A direct-message conversation has its own private call for that conversation's participants. Both kinds of meeting use the same media controls and layouts, but activity meetings also support live apps, participant Awards, and room management by authorized space members.
Access follows the activity or conversation. An invitation does not add someone to a private area or a direct-message conversation. The start-and-join guide covers both entry paths.
See The People And The Work
The stage arranges feeds: a person's camera or audio presence, a screen share, or a live app. A presenter can have both a camera tile and a separate shared-screen tile. Several people can share screens at once.
Grid keeps the room’s available feeds together while the meeting actions and call controls stay within reach.
Choose a view that suits the discussion:
These choices affect your view. Each participant can follow a different feed or layout. See Stage and layouts when you want to concentrate on a presentation or compare parallel shares.
A fresh connection starts with the microphone and camera off. Turn on the media you want to send, and use the device selectors when you need a headset, speaker output, or another camera. Media and call controls explains those choices and connection recovery.
Keep The Call Beside Your Work
Opening the stage takes you to its activity chat or direct-message conversation. Closing it leaves you connected there; you can then navigate to other work in Visual Space. After you have viewed the stage, a movable picture-in-picture preview keeps a feed and essential controls nearby.
Picture-in-picture keeps the selected meeting feed and essential controls beside the workspace.
Drag the preview to a useful corner, or toward a side edge to collapse it. Select the edge tag to restore the preview, then select the expanded preview to reopen the stage. Moving or closing a view does not stop your microphone, camera, or screen share.
Follow Keep working during a meeting for the full workflow.
Participate Without Taking Over
Use a reaction for a quick response, or raise your hand to join the speaking queue. An unlowered hand expires after five minutes. Activity meetings can use the space's custom emoji, and eligible participants can give another current participant an Award.
Invite eligible people through the meeting's invitation picker. Space owners and members with permission to manage chat can also mute or remove another participant from an activity room. These controls do not apply to direct-message calls. See Participation and room management.
Bring Shared Work Onto The Stage
In an activity meeting, open Live Apps to bring an Article, Poll, Retrospective, Whiteboard, or Canvas onto the stage. Choose accessible existing work or create a supported draft. The document keeps its own viewing, editing, and saving rules.
Open the meeting picker to choose shared work; app availability and document access still apply.
A live app becomes a feed the room can select; opening it does not give every participant editing permission or publish the document. Closing the app removes its meeting feed for everyone, while the source document remains in its owning app. Read Live apps before a collaborative session.
Common Questions
Can I join more than one meeting?
No. Joining a replacement room switches your active call. An activity-room switch connects the new room before leaving the old one; a direct-message switch leaves first. If the latter fails, you need to rejoin a room yourself.
Can I schedule or record a meeting?
Current meetings are ad-hoc. They do not include scheduling, reminders, recording, or public invitation links.
What happens when the connection drops?
The stage shows that it is reconnecting and attempts recovery. If recovery fails, the meeting closes with an explanation. Restore your connection and join again from the owning activity or conversation.
Does everyone leave when I hang up?
No. Other participants can continue. When the room becomes empty, its active presence and remaining live-app feeds close. You may receive an optional call-quality feedback prompt after leaving.