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Yeah, this has to have been built by one of the ride companies and someone with experience building dark rides. This is not just thrown together by an amateur staff at Google.
A friend of a friend told me the design firm was Nexus Studios, but Google's team is far from amateur... they have a top-notch experience design team with a lot of theme park and exhibit experience.