Five years later, you can finally buy Google Beam

It’s been five years since Google first offered a glimpse of Project Starline, a three-dimensional videoconferencing platform billed at the time as as a “magic window” that enables realistic and immersive calls. On Wednesday, Google announced that Google Beam — as the software element of the product is now called — is generally available for purchase, built into HP’s Dimension video meeting hardware. The Dimension hardware reportedly costs around $25,000 per unit; Google did not provide details