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A galaxy of your own
September 30, 2010
(Cross-posted with the
Official Google Blog
)
Last December, we
wrote about
our immersive Google Earth environment, Liquid Galaxy: eight 55-inch LCD screens showing Google Earth in a unified, surround view.
Liquid Galaxy at TED 2010
Since then, we’ve taken it to a lot of conferences, built Liquid Galaxies in Google offices all over the world and even put one in the
Tech Museum
in San Jose, Calif. We love watching people try it for the first time. Almost everybody wants to see their own house first; but then they start to explore, and we can never guess where they’ll choose to go next.
But we just couldn’t bring it to enough people—we could only go to so many conferences, and only friends and family of Googlers could try out the Liquid Galaxies in our offices.
So we decided to put the features that make Liquid Galaxy possible into the latest release of
Google Earth
, and open-source all the supporting work, from our Ubuntu
sysadmin scripts
to the
mechanical design
of our custom frames.
Not everyone will have the know-how to network computers together and get view synchronization working, but we tried to make it as easy as possible. If you think you’re up to the challenge, check out our
Quick Start
page. You can also contact our supplier
End Point
if you’d rather buy than build (or just need some professional assistance). Here’s a video they made that shows Liquid Galaxy in action:
Liquid Galaxies don’t have to be made from eight big LCD screens; the view sync features scale just fine from two to dozens of screens. And they
can run more than just Google Earth
; we’ve had success playing video in sync in our Liquid Galaxies, and even modified a Free Software video game for after-hours fun. We’ve daydreamed about making panoramic movies,
head tracking
or even real-time video from distant
panoramic cameras
. Read more on the
Liquid Galaxy page
at earth.google.com, and show off your creations in the
liquid-galaxy discussion group
. We’re excited to see what you come up with!
Posted by Jason Holt, Software Engineer, Liquid Galaxy 20% Team
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