Google's mystery barge in the San Francisco Bay. A new report said that the tech giant is building a VIP, invite-only showroom for Google X projects and products.
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After a week of intense interest in what Google has been building on barges in the San Francisco Bay and in Maine’s Casco Bay, the mystery may well be over: The tech giant is developing a reconfigurable, invite-only showroom for Google X-related projects and products.
According to a report from CBS’ San Francisco affiliate KPIX, Google has been working on the project for more than a year, and the plan is to make the showroom movable and also capable of being taken apart and reassembled as needed. The idea is that elements of it could be on the water one day, or on a ski slope the next. The edifice will have three floors of showrooms and a party deck, KPIX said, citing “a source who has been on board the vessel.”
KPIX also reported that the project has been “personally directed” by Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
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