Meeting participation ranges from a quick emoji to removing someone from the room. Visual Space keeps those actions together while preserving a clear difference between expression, which helps anyone take part, and room management, which can change another participant's call.
Reactions, raised hands, invitations, participant profiles, Awards, and meeting controls all use the room that is active now. Their availability depends on whether the call belongs to an activity or a direct-message conversation, whether the other person is still present, and whether the current member has the required space permission.
Invite People Into The Current Room
Any active participant can invite eligible people who are not already in the meeting. The invitation helps someone discover and enter an existing call; it does not grant access to the activity, private area, space, or direct-message conversation that owns the room.
The candidate list follows the room's scope:
The invite window shows a loading state while it finds candidates. Search filters the eligible list by display name or handle. Selecting a person adds a removable chip above the results; selecting the row again or removing its chip deselects that person. You can collect several recipients before using Invite To Call, and the action stays unavailable when no one is selected or while the invitation is being sent.
An empty result has two useful meanings. There may be nobody else currently eligible, or the current search may match nobody. If candidates cannot be loaded, the window reports that state instead of presenting an unexplained blank list.
Eligibility and presence can change while the window is open. Visual Space checks the recipients again when invitations are sent, so a duplicate, a person who has already joined, or someone who is no longer eligible may be left out. After a successful send, the window closes. If sending fails, it remains available so the participant can review the selection and try again.
The selection chip and enabled Invite To Call action make the invitation's recipients explicit before anything is sent.
Incoming Invitations Stay Out Of The Way
An incoming invitation appears in a compact bar over the current screen. It names the activity or conversation and offers two choices: dismiss it or use Join meeting to enter the room and open its stage. Dismissing removes the invitation without changing access or joining the call.
Accepting an invitation still uses the latest room state. If the meeting is not yet visible in the recipient's current view, Visual Space refreshes it before joining. If the invitation or room is no longer available, the app does not open a stale meeting. The member can return to the owning activity or conversation to see whether a current room is available.
React Without Interrupting
Reactions are the lightest form of participation. Choose an emoji and it briefly rises across the stage while also identifying the sender on their feed. The effect disappears automatically, so a burst of agreement or amusement does not become a lasting queue or cover the call controls.
Standard emoji are available for everyday reactions. In activity meetings, the picker can also reuse custom emoji configured for that space's chat. Meetings use that existing expression set; they do not create or manage a separate custom-emoji collection.
Only someone currently in the meeting can send a reaction. If the room changes before the reaction is accepted, Visual Space reports that it could not be sent rather than leaving a misleading effect on the stage. Reaction visuals also clear when the participant leaves the meeting.
Raised Hands Give The Room An Order
A raised hand is more persistent and consequential than a reaction. It signals a request to speak and appears in a visible queue with the participant's name and position. Hands are ordered by the time they were raised, giving the room a shared answer to who asked first.
Participants raise and lower their own hands. Raising a hand again does not create another place in the queue, and lowering it removes that request. A raised hand is a coordination signal only: it does not turn on a microphone, reserve the stage, or grant control over another participant.
The queue follows active meeting presence. Old or no-longer-active requests disappear, and the local queue clears when the member leaves the room. If a raise or lower action cannot be applied because the room has changed, the app reports the problem and keeps the visible queue aligned with the active meeting.
!Meeting stage with Space Instructor first in the raised-hand queue and the reaction picker open
A raised hand keeps a numbered place in the room, while the open reaction picker has not yet sent a transient emoji.
Awards Recognize One Participant
Awards are Visual Space's quick item-level appreciation, brought into activity meetings as recognition for a particular participant. Open another participant's options and choose Give award to select an Award. The room sees a larger, longer-lived celebration than an emoji reaction, including who sent it, who received it, and the Award quantity when more than one was given.
Meeting Awards have narrow boundaries:
These checks keep an Award tied to a real in-room interaction. If the recipient leaves or the activity meeting ends before the choice is completed, the Award action is no longer valid. The participant can reopen the current participant list to see who is still available.
Participant Profiles And Contextual Actions
Participant rows show more than a name. They can indicate speaking, microphone, camera, and screen-sharing state, while selecting a row opens that person's profile. Participant feeds and rows also provide a participant options menu through the interaction appropriate to the device, such as a context action on desktop or a long press on touch devices.
The menu always reflects its current context. Profile is the general identity action. Give award appears only when the activity-meeting Award rules are satisfied. Meeting-management actions appear only for an eligible target in an activity room and only to a member allowed to use them. This means two people can open the same participant's menu and correctly see different choices.
Activity-Room Management Has A Strict Boundary
Muting or removing another person changes their participation rather than merely expressing something. Visual Space therefore exposes these actions only in an activity meeting to:
Authorized members can use Mute mic when another active participant's microphone is currently on. This turns off that participant's microphone in the room. It is not offered for the current member, for someone already shown as muted, or for someone who is no longer an active target.
Kick from meeting removes another active participant from the current room. Its scope ends at that meeting: it does not remove the person from the space, revoke activity access, or change their roles. Broader membership and access decisions belong to space management, not the meeting participant menu.
These controls are never available in direct-message meetings. A private conversation does not inherit space-role moderation, even when its participants happen to share a space. They are also never offered against the person using the menu. No member can mute or kick themself through participant management.
The menu adapts to room permission and current participant state: this muted target can be recognized or removed, but does not need another mute action.
The permission and scope rules apply at the moment of the action, not only when the menu first opens. If the meeting ends, the target leaves, or the participant state changes first, Visual Space refuses the outdated action and reports that it could not be completed. The participant list then remains the place to confirm the room's current state.
Common Questions
Why is someone missing from the invitation list?
They may already be in the meeting, may be the person sending the invitation, may not match the current search, or may not have access to the activity or direct-message conversation that owns the room.
Does an invitation let someone into a private activity?
No. Invitations help eligible people find the active room. They never replace space, private-area, activity, or conversation access.
What is the difference between a reaction and a raised hand?
A reaction is a short-lived expression. A raised hand stays in an ordered queue until it is lowered or is no longer active, making it suitable for turn-taking.
Can I give myself an Award or give one in a direct-message call?
No. Meeting Awards recognize another current participant and are available only in activity meetings.
Why do I see Profile but not Mute mic or Kick from meeting?
Room-management actions require an activity meeting, another active participant, and either space ownership or chat-management permission. Mute mic is also unnecessary when that participant is already muted.
Does Kick from meeting remove the person from the space?
No. It removes the participant from the current meeting only. It does not change space membership, activity access, or roles.
What should I do when an action fails because the room changed?
Review the current participant list or return to the owning activity or conversation. The person may have joined, left, become ineligible, or the room may have ended since the menu or invitation was opened.