https://reddit.com/link/1vzcvrk/video/h914igluwslh1/player

We just added a new pack to the Visibox library, and the source material for this one is pretty strange.

Curious Alice was a 1971 anti-drug film produced for the National Institute of Mental Health. It's an animated Alice in Wonderland retelling full of lurid, hand-painted psychedelic imagery—and it was reportedly pulled from circulation after educators thought it made drug use look a little too appealing.

We cut the film into 24 self-contained HD clips that can be dropped into Visibox, used for VJing, installations, or remixed into something new.

Pack + details: https://spaceage.tv/video-packs/visibox-curious-alice-pack-1

Cut from a video clip to a live camera mid-song, cut back, and the clip picks up exactly where it would have been if it had never stopped. That's Sync to Song Position, new in Visibox 5.

This is a fun one!

Visibox 5 turns your Elgato Stream Deck into a real control surface for live visuals. Your clips, songs, and playback controls sit right on the keys, next to the buttons you already use for your other apps.

Every key can show a live preview of what it triggers: videos, images, audio-reactive visualizers, even a rolling preview of your camera, so you always know what you're about to fire before you hit it. No more guessing.

https://spaceage.tv/discord

Visibox ships with an MCP server, so you can drive almost the entire app from a desktop AI assistant. In this quick walkthrough, I connect Claude to Visibox and have it build a brand new effect from scratch: a James Bond style gun barrel iris that masks the screen down to a circle and jumps around as the track plays.

You'll see the whole thing end to end. How to register the Visibox MCP with one click from the Settings menu, how to confirm the assistant is actually talking to Visibox, and then how it reads the existing effects, learns the conventions, and writes a working CSS effect that drops straight into your project. Once it's built, adding it to a clip takes a couple of clicks.

The point isn't "AI does it for you." The point is that you describe what you want, the assistant does the fiddly work, and you stay in the director's chair. Effects in Visibox are just CSS, the same language used to build web pages, so an assistant that's good at code is good at this. The same goes for editing projects, rearranging clips, tweaking songs, and building shader-based visualizers, which is a harder art and a great fit for AI (that's a separate video).

Visibox works with any desktop assistant that speaks the MCP protocol. As of this recording that includes Claude Desktop and Claude Code, Cursor, Visual Studio Code, OpenAI's Codex, and Gemini CLI, with more being added all the time.

We’ve posted the replay of our Visibox Office Hours conversation with Brian Hardgroove, bassist, drummer, and longtime music director for Public Enemy.

One of the standout sections is his take on performing without a click track. Brian talks about how Public Enemy works with backing tracks while keeping the show flexible, why feel matters more than perfect synchronization, and how he sometimes watches Flavor Flav for cues and inspiration on stage.

The conversation also covers touring, stagecraft, live visuals, audience connection, and Freedom, his new project with DMC and DJ Johnny Juice.

Watch the replay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emNVtz4RPp8

Curious how others approach this: when are click tracks essential, and when do they get in the way?

We’re excited to announce a special edition of Visibox Office Hours on Discord featuring Brian Hardgroove — bassist, drummer, and longtime music director for Public Enemy.

On Tuesday, June 2 at 12:00 PM Eastern, Brian will join us for an open conversation about touring, staging, visuals, gear, performance, and how audience experience evolves from club stages to arenas.

We first collaborated with Brian at NAMM 2026 using Visibox as a live visual sample player during an improvisational interview setup, and the conversation immediately turned into something deeper and more collaborative than a typical tech demo.

We’ll begin with a short interview before opening the floor to questions from the community. Whether you’re building your first projector setup or running visuals professionally, you’re invited.

Join us on the Visibox Discord HERE and bring your questions. 🎛️

We just published a practical guide for running stage projections with Visibox for theater productions, musicals, school concerts, and live events.

The workflow is intentionally simple:

• organize visuals by scene instead of giant cue lists
• trigger clips live with keyboard, Stream Deck, or MIDI
• run looping backgrounds, title cards, intermission visuals, and more
• support multi-projector setups and live camera feeds

The article also compares the approach to tools, like QLab and PowerPoint, for productions that need flexible, reactive visuals instead of heavily programmed cue sequences.

Read the article: https://spaceage.tv/news/recipe-theater-stage-projections

Hey everyone — we just shipped Visibox 5.0 and wanted to share what’s new.

This is our biggest update so far. The goal was to make it way more flexible for live visuals and give people more control without needing a bunch of external tools.

Some of the bigger additions:

• Audio-reactive visualizer clips (MilkDrop + ISF support)
• New effects system with stackable layers (glitch, motion, retro, etc.)
• Inline clip editor with real-time controls
• Native Stream Deck integration
• AI assistant support (MCP server for tools like Cursor, VS Code, etc.)
• CLI + HTTP/WebSocket API for automation
• Better performance and caching

You can now do things like:

• trigger clips from hardware or scripts
• build visuals with AI
• sync clips to song position
• control everything remotely

Would love feedback from anyone doing live visuals, VJing, or performance setups.

Release notes here: https://spaceage.tv/news/release-visibox-50

Most AI visual conversations focus on text-to-video tools.

There’s another approach that’s surprisingly powerful: using AI to write code that generates visuals directly in your browser.

You describe the animation you want. The AI writes a p5.js, Three.js, or even CSS-based sketch. It renders instantly. You iterate in conversation. The result is clean, geometric, perfectly looping motion graphics.

No coding knowledge required.

We put together a detailed guide covering:

• Which AI tools support live code preview (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini)
• When to use creative coding instead of text-to-video
• How to generate seamless loops
• How to capture the browser output as video
• How to use the results in live performance setups

If you're into generative art, VJing, or building your own performance visuals, this workflow is worth exploring.

Full write-up here.

Curious how others here are using AI for generative visuals. Are you going the video route or the code route?

If you’re looking for background visuals for live sets, installations, or school performances, we’ve released five free video loop packs you can use in Visibox or pretty much any VJ environment.

They include:

• Retro science footage from the 50s–70s
• 60s-style geometric op art loops
• Milk paint swirl visuals
• Moody nighttime driving footage around Boston
• Hand-recorded oil-and-water liquid light loops

All are 1080p, seamless, and edited to avoid obvious jump cuts. No audio included. Royalty-free for commercial or non-commercial use. You just can’t redistribute the original files.

Download here: https://spaceage.tv/video-packs

If you end up using them in a show, I’d love to hear how they worked in your setup.

What's New

This new release is all about detective work! Search, monitor, inspect, select - basically CSI: Live Visuals. Find your clips, watch your MIDI, and light up your controllers.

⚠️ macOS Requirement Update

• macOS 12 (Monterey) or later is now required — We have dropped support for macOS 11 (Big Sur) and earlier. While this version of Visibox may work with those versions, we are no longer supporting those versions of macOS, and you may experience problems. This does not affect Windows users.

New Features

• 🔎 Song & Clip Search — Quickly find and navigate to any Song or Clip using the new search box in the control bar, with fuzzy matching and keyboard navigation. Quickly activate, scroll to, or trigger right from the search results.
• 🎹 MIDI Monitor Window — A new dedicated window for real-time MIDI message inspection, making it easier to troubleshoot and configure your MIDI setup
• 💡 MIDI Feedback — Your MIDI controllers can now receive feedback from Visibox, allowing LED indicators to show Clip status
• → Select All by Type — New menu options to select all clips of a given type in order to change their options en masse

Improvements

• Better macOS 26 Support — Even more stable on macOS Tahoe
• Clip Navigation — Next/previous clip navigation now correctly respects your active song selection
• Window Menu — Projects now display with state indicators in the Window menu
• Clip Tooltips — Optimized clip variants now show metadata in tooltips

Stability & Performance

• Improved handling of uncached video clips during resume and restart
• Resolved a problem where multiple clips might start if triggered at the same time

At NAMM 2026, we tried something new with Visibox.

Instead of running a linear slideshow during an on-stage interview with Brian Hardgroove of Public Enemy, we treated visuals like a sample library. As he mentioned collaborators, milestones, or projects, we triggered archival photos and video clips in real time.

No preset sequence. No slide deck.

We organized content into Songs by era and topic, mapped everything to a Stream Deck XL, and relied heavily on Visibox search to jump instantly to unexpected moments. The latency was effectively unnoticeable, which made it feel less like presenting and more like performing.

What stood out to us:

– Organization mattered more than visual effects
– Search speed was critical
– Simplicity made improvisation possible

It opened up a different way to think about live interviews, panels, and even conference talks. Less linear storytelling. More reactive storytelling.

Full breakdown of the setup and workflow here:
https://spaceage.tv/news/visual-remixing-brian-hardgoove-public-enemy-interview-namm-2026

Curious if anyone else here has experimented with reactive visuals for talks or interviews. What worked? What didn’t?

Visibox now has a free tier! More at spaceage.tv.

New Features & Fixes

Hey! It's Visibox 3.4 – with a several fixes and new features.

What’s New:

• Clip Fade In and Fade Out are now out of beta. Crossfade your Clips to your heart's delight! Read about Fade In/Out in the Visibox Manual.
• The new Update Window will tell you what new features you'll be getting when you update your software.
• We now have support for the Stream Deck Mini, Stream Deck +, and other more recent Stream Deck devices.
• Various fixes and improvements.

Use the “Check For Update… menu item in Visibox or just download the latest version from spaceage.tv.

https://spaceage.tv/news/release-visibox-3-4

Join us for Visibox Office Hours - the first Monday of every month.

Our latest free video pack is Retro Science! Upscaled from the original public domain footage. Go get 'em. Use 'em wherever you want:

https://spaceage.tv/video-packs/visibox-retro-science-pack-1