Google Open Sources Liquid Galaxy! Build Your Own Or Buy One ? For $80,000!

I still think Google's coolest 20 percent project of all time is Liquid Galaxy, you know, the "eight 55-inch LCD screens showing Google Earth in a unified, surround view" thing that Google sets up around to different conferences they are a part of. It's sort of like the Star Trek Holodeck. It's awesome.

And now you can build your own -- or buy one! Google has open-sourced the entire project, including the Ubuntu sysadmin scripts to the mechanical design of the custom frames. And they've released a new version of the public Google Earth that supports it.

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