What's new in Cosmos Video

We're thrilled to announce the launch of the Cosmos Space Builder! We've heard countless requests from users wanting to create a space that feels like their home from the very start, and finally, we've been able to deliver it.

🌟 Create spaces that work for YOU

Cosmos spaces act as a glue for your sessions or workflows. Now you have complete control. Whether you're running team meetings, online co-working, hosting workshops, or delivering online lectures for students, you can now craft the right space for your needs.

🔧 To access the builder

1. Go to your Cosmos space
2. Click on "Floorplan" from the top left Space dropdown
3. Choose "Build your own space"

🎨 Bring your vision to life

The builder lets you edit one of the spaces from our library or design a space right from the start. You'll be able to build colourful spaces with all our preloaded assets.

📚 Getting started

• How to use the Space Builder — Learn the basics
• Creating the Perfect Space for Your Remote Team — Ideal for online co-working
• Creating the Perfect Cosmos Space for Your Students — Ideal for online learning or group tuition

💪 Build with confidence

• Publish spaces with 1-click: Changes apply instantly — nobody needs to refresh
• Simple interface: Easy to understand and use, no design experience required
• Make it your own: Reflect your personality and team culture through your space

Ready to create your own space? Do give Cosmos Space Builder a spin. We welcome your feedback — we'll quickly iterate and improve as we always do.

We've shipped a truckload of features to Cosmos that unlock new possibilities. Here's what's new.

👨‍🏫 Large meetings for all-hands & teaching

Run large sessions with crystal-clear audio, focused attention on speakers, and interactive audience engagement.

• Support for up to 200 participants with 30% less bandwidth usage thanks to VP9 encoding
• Noise cancellation to automatically remove background noise
• Active speaker mode to highlight whoever is speaking — perfect for webinars and podcasts
• Share a second camera during calls — ideal for music teachers showcasing instruments or product demonstrations
• Polls in meetings for real-time audience feedback
• Firefox improvements supporting up to 125 participants with annotations on screen-share
• Reactions are less jarring with options to turn off sounds (user settings > advanced)

🏢 Team collaboration

Get straight to work with minimal friction and improved messaging.

• Home — join your preferred desk instantly in listening mode and skip the space landing
• Threads section to see all active threads with updates and to carry the conversation
• Deep-linking notifications that take you directly to specific messages across all platforms
• See what's happening in the space when in Focusing or Away statuses

📊 Better insights for admins

Understand how your team uses Cosmos, and the value it creates.

• Space utilisation charts to understand peak usage times
• Value metrics to see what benefits Cosmos brings to your team
• Activity patterns to help identify optimal times for formal co-working sessions

Kicking off 2025 with improvements to make Cosmos video calls more powerful & intuitive.

🧭 Space & call switch

Two-tab view to simplify navigation, especially for first-time users.

• Space view: Navigate the space, create breakout groups, or return to your desk
• Call view: Focus on gallery view with enhanced pinning and spotlighting options

🌟 Spotlight mode

• Admins and members can now pin videos for everyone in calls
• Recordings follow spotlighted videos with improved layout & UX

📍 Home location

Set your preferred place in Cosmos as Home, whether it's a private room or a co-working desk. You can return to your place anytime by clicking the "Home" button in the space tab.

🛠️ Space Builder beta

Want early access to create fully custom spaces? Sign up for our beta and help us polish the space builder functionality before we release it to all users.

✨ Polish & improvements

• Google Calendar Add-On: Now re-verified on Google App Marketplace
• Game fixes: Resolved disconnection issues at game tables
• Call toolbar with apps open: Stays visible during games/apps
• Coming soon: Notification sounds and deep linking for apps/desktop

After a strong 2024, we're excited to continue enhancing Cosmos with your input. Here's to creating the best digital spaces for connecting, collaborating, and learning!

We're making Cosmos spaces more customisable and adding social features to help you connect with a bigger audience.

🔗 Memorable space links

• Memorable links work seamlessly on desktop, mobile, and apps.
• Get yours via Space Settings > Memorable Space Link for effortless sharing.

🪧 Change room names on the go

• Room cards with options to go to a room, get the shareable link for quick sharing, or edit settings.
• To change name, go to Cosmos space > click on room card > Edit & update name.
• Soon, you will be able to claim rooms, set room types, and embed links or music that auto-plays when someone joins.

🎥 Live stream calls from Cosmos

• Stream call recordings directly from Cosmos to platforms like YouTube or Twitch. Turn on livestream when starting a call recording in Cosmos, add your RTMP stream URL and password, and you're live.
• Streams mirror your recorder's layout and orientation.
• An update is coming to recorder design & layout.

✨ Polish & improvements

• Simplified navigation: Movement cues and clickable room names make it easier for first-time users to get around.
• Auto low-resource mode: Cosmos automatically alerts you if your device is struggling and switches to low resource mode. Turn it off via the View Control button in the top-right corner.

Cosmos is where people come together to work, learn, and connect. We're introducing features to make it easier to bring people together in a space and help them form new connections.

🌟 Profiles

Share your story, location, time zone and interests to find common ground with others in Cosmos space and form new connections.

🔗 Memorable space links

Give your Cosmos space a custom, easy-to-remember URL — cosmos.video/yourspace. You can get your memorable URL and control access via space > settings > space access.

📱 Improved mobile onboarding

Our mobile apps now support all Cosmos links, including member invites, room, user, call, and calendar invites. Just click, download, and go directly to the right Cosmos space or meeting.

🔒 Screen share auto-off for privacy

Set Cosmos to turn off screen sharing automatically when you leave a meeting room, are alone, or switch your status to focus or away. Adjust your preferences under user settings > advanced.

I'm back with updates, this time enhancing guests' ability to join meetings quickly and better chat on mobile, ensuring you and your team stay connected.

🔗 Guests can join meetings on mobile easily

• Guests can join meetings with a link: Easier to jump into discussions quickly. There is no need to sign up; download the Cosmos app, click the link, and go.
• Enhanced deep linking across Cosmos: Cosmos takes you where you need to be with a link in a snap — space, room, user, or meeting links.

💬 Chat improvements

• Notifications deep link: Jump to the message from any notification, saving you time and hassle.
• Thread replies in Direct Messages (DMs), Channels, and meeting chats with a refined user experience.
• Profile pictures sync seamlessly with mobile, web, and desktop chat, keeping chat personalised and engaging.

👯 Community feedback

• Slack notifications: Cosmos will no longer create message groups for notifications. Instead, you'll get all updates as direct messages from Cosmos, to reduce the clutter from multiple notifications.

We're excited to introduce Cosmos Replay, designed to save teams valuable time and make it easy to keep everyone in the loop.

🌍 Multilingual support

The ability to transcribe and summarise calls in 10 languages, from Spanish to Japanese.

🔍 Insightful summaries

Cosmos Replay's advanced AI condenses meetings to summaries, action items, and key insights. It lets you dive into relevant video snippets directly from action items and key insights.

📹 Better replay experience

The revamped video player is built to be quick and intuitive. It includes speed control, quality, pop-out, and volume adjustments.

➡️ Share with ease

Effortlessly share meeting replays with people outside your team. Cosmos Replay sharing links come with customisable permissions, ensuring your insights reach the right people anywhere, anytime — even on mobile — without login hassles.

🧘🏻 Auto-share replays

Cosmos plugins for Google Calendar and Outlook now allow you to auto-share replays with everyone invited to the meeting. You can decide to auto-share when starting the recording.

We are building out two streams for Cosmos to be the best digital place for people to come together, work and learn:

• Video experiences: Our strong suit keeps getting better. Now, we have new and improved video experiences: map view, gallery of videos, pinning with HD quality video.
• Channels and chat: We aim to ensure all your messaging needs are met inside Cosmos without going anywhere else.

🎥 Video experiences

Different video experiences to suit everyone's needs, with default call quality at 720p.

• View switcher: One place to switch between different video experiences
• Map view: See videos in a floating layout over the map
• Gallery view: See videos in a grid with the ability to pin a video or screenshare, supporting up to 36 videos on a page
• Video settings:
  • Popout: See up to 4 videos in a popout that stays on top of other apps with the Cosmos desktop app
  • Fullscreen: Focus entirely on the video and screen share
  • Hide self video: Hide your video if it's distracting

💬 Public channels

To level the playing field for communication within space. Messages sent to public channels reach everyone: admins, members, and guests. They are perfect for announcements, space-wide discussions, introductions, and welcomes.

🔔 Activities

Notifications now show in the bottom right of Cosmos along with a ding sound. Notifications are listed in the activities tab of the sidebar to keep you in the loop.

These updates are designed to make your experience with Cosmos more intuitive and engaging.

🧭 All-new sidebar

Facilitates seamless communication through channel messages, DMs, video calls, and more, tailored to everyone's needs.

• Space: All controls and settings related to your space.
• Conversations & calendar: All your conversations and meetings in one place.
• Channels: For async conversations and updates.
• Users list: View user lists and perform actions quickly.
• Your controls: Access inputs, screen sharing, status, and settings effortlessly.

📹 Video layouts and native chat

Perfect for hosting lectures, fireside chats, and panels with superior video and audio quality.

• New video layouts: Choose from floating video in the map, video sidebar, gallery, or pinned videos.
• 720p video quality: Video quality now auto-increases to 720p in gallery mode or when you pin a video during a call.
• Native chat experience: View and interact with chat channels alongside video calls. Whether you're in gallery mode or focusing on a screen share, chat is always accessible.

🖥️ Improved screen-sharing experience

Elevates collaboration, group learning, and meeting experiences within your community.

• One-click screen share: No need to choose quality every time; set defaults by hovering over the screen share option.
• Screen share shows along videos: Effortlessly switch between different screen shares from the video container.
• Annotation: Change pen colours easily for better collaboration (available in the desktop app).
• Pop-out experience: Collaborate easily with multiple screen shares and one-click switching between screens from the pop-out window (available in the desktop app).
• Screen preview: Tucked away to minimise distractions. No more infinity mirror effect when viewing your own preview.

🛠️ Contextual toolbar

Provides relevant controls for an excellent and easy-to-understand experience for guests and first-time students.

• Your controls: Manage inputs, screen share, raised hands, and your settings.
• Conversation controls: Handle conversation chat, move conversations, and invite people.
• Room controls: Lock rooms, record sessions, and set up timers.

Cosmos is a place to engage and achieve more together. Whether you're collaborating with colleagues, engaging students in workshops, or bringing together a community for discussions, we're here with you every step of the way.

Here's what we've been up to.

🛎️ Smoother guest experience

• Familiar video call experience: Set the guest invite links to start the call in gallery mode and make your guests feel at ease.
• Start calls smoothly: Direct guests to specific rooms in your Cosmos space.
• Control access: Decide if external guests can join by themselves or need to be let in by admins or other members in the space.
• Be available for clients: Cosmos links are permanent; external guests can use them to find you when they need your help.

🎨 Your space, your brand

• Branding: Add your logo and customise your space welcome header and description.
• Space working hours: Let visitors know the best times to visit your team.
• Booking link to schedule calls: If your space is empty, guests can use the booking link to book a meeting time.

💬 Chat keeps getting better

• Improved channel creation: Creating channels and adding team members is smoother.
• Notification preferences: Set what you want to be notified about for each space to make sure you stay in the loop without the noise.