Visual Space 4 is our first public release and the starting point for communities, publishing, planning, meetings, and creative work. Its broad foundation is compressed into these highlights. Future changelogs will explain smaller updates in more detail.
Core Experience
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Hybrid Feed - Hybrid Feed keeps updates, conversations, files, and live apps connected as people move through a space.
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Spaces - Spaces give communities a shared home with subspaces, activities, membership, privacy, and clear ways to organize their work.
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About - Each space area can explain its purpose and surface useful activities, events, goals, updates, contributors, and onboarding content.
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Expo - Space owners and permitted members can curate published work into a showcase for easier discovery.
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Wiki - Maintainers can curate published articles into an expandable knowledge tree that follows their current Documents placement.
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Top Contributors - Members can discover leading contributors, understand their impact, and continue to their profiles or highlighted goals.
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Rules - Space owners can publish community rules, and members can read them whenever they need guidance.
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Roles - Space owners can create custom roles and set permissions for the whole space or individual subspaces and activities.
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Announcements - Coordinators can share official updates in a focused space feed, giving members a reliable place to catch up on important changes and decisions.
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Familiar navigation - Direct links, session continuity, and shared media controls help people return to their work and move between apps.
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Profiles - Profiles bring public identity, articles, videos, Shorts, live broadcasts, Originals, earned Medals and saved collections into one place.
Content And Publishing
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Articles - Authors can grow an idea from a private draft into a rich article with media, discussion, reliable autosave, and a focused feed summary.
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Q&A - Members can ask article-backed questions, rank rich answers with votes, and add short comments directly to a question or answer.
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Polls - Authors can add single-choice polls to articles, while members can vote from the feed, reading page, or meeting stage.
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Videos - Browse videos and Shorts, resume watching, organize playlists, follow discussions and manage uploads or live broadcasts from your studio.
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Originals - Discover films and shows, keep a personal watchlist, explore characters and discuss stories alongside their articles.
Communication
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Chat - Activity topics keep replies, mentions, attachments, reactions, drafts, and article handoffs close to the shared work.
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Direct Messages - Private one-to-one and group conversations support organized topics, file sharing, reactions, search, favorite and mute controls, and unread tracking.
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Meetings - Activity and direct-message calls offer audio, video, screen sharing, flexible layouts, invitations, and picture-in-picture alongside reactions and raised hands.
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Meeting live apps - Activity meetings can bring supported articles, polls, retrospectives, whiteboards and Canvas files onto the shared stage.
Collaboration
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Whiteboards - Teams can sketch, diagram, plan, and connect existing work on a persistent canvas with live editing, comments, and meeting access.
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Goals - Flexible boards, backlogs, assignments, filters, and lasting references help teams plan active work and revisit completed goals.
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Docs - Organize shared files and app documents with folders, previews and bulk actions, or keep independent copies in your personal My Docs workspace.
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Events - Coordinators can prepare and publish events with schedules and rich details, while members can respond and return to the discussion later.
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Retrospectives - Teams can reflect with Went Well, To Improve, and Action Items boards that update live and also work in meetings.
Creative Live Apps
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Poly - Build 3D scenes with modeling, sculpting, UV editing and texture painting, then add rigs and animation or export supported scenes.
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Canvas - Combine painted layers, text, shapes and masks, collaborate with live pointers, and export images or layered projects.
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Stage - Arrange structures, landscapes and references into a 3D scene, save viewpoints and use available AI credits to explore rendered variations.
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Pixels - Paint layered artwork, refine colors and masks, and build frame animations with adjustable playback and saved project files.
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Storyboard - Arrange scenes and illustrated boards, add dialogue and annotations, and discuss the sequence alongside its linked article.
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Lexi - Build shared vocabulary collections and practice recognition, spelling and sentences, with personal progress tracked separately for each challenge.
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Blueprints - Dimensioned sketches and lightweight part design are Coming Soon.
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Layouts - Measured room plans and renovation sketches are Coming Soon.
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Frames - The video-editing workspace is Coming Soon.
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MathPad - Formula editing is Coming Soon.
Discovery And Attention
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Search - Search finds spaces and people alongside posts, goals, events, documents, and conversations across Visual Space or within one space.
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Private results - Search opens results in context and filters private content according to your access.
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Notifications - One inbox groups related updates and opens the affected work; explicit read and clear actions keep attention under your control.
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Rankings - Top Contributors highlights sustained community work while excluding direct messages, time online, and private report details.
Abos And Boosts
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Abos - Free covers everyday participation, while Contributor and Coordinator add monthly Awards and assignable storage, and Coordinator unlocks planning, meetings, and collaborative apps.
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App access - Whiteboard, Canvas and Poly are available separately. Designer, Engineer, Game Design and Business packages are marked Coming Soon.
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Boosts - Storage and upload Boosts benefit an assigned space; AI credit packs provide a separate allowance for supported creative workflows.
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Award packs - One-time packs add 5, 10, 20, 40, 80 or 100 permanent Awards that remain available until used.
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Space rules still apply - Paid access unlocks eligible tools but never replaces membership, privacy, ownership, or role permissions.
Awards And Medals
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Everyday Awards - Space owners and members with Add awards permission can spend personal Awards to thank contributions in areas they can access. Received Awards recognize work without replenishing the recipient's spendable balance.
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Lasting Medals - Space owners and permitted members grant Medals for lasting contributions, with a certificate and a shared allowance of five per UTC calendar month. Eligible spaces must be at least 90 days old, with 25 active members in each of the two preceding 30-day periods. Medals cannot be purchased.
Safety And Moderation
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Members report - Members can report a post, choose the relevant Visual Space or community rule, add context, and receive a private confirmation.
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Space owners review - Space owners can see new and resolved reports for their own space, while permitted reviewers can also revisit removed posts and restore eligible content.
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Authorized moderators - Permitted reviewers can inspect the case, add notes, and approve it without removal, remove the post, or mark it as spam.
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Current coverage - Posts have the complete reporting and review journey in this release, while other content types do not yet have the same coverage.