In order to follow these instructions, you will need to have a project that has billing enabled. Please follow the instructions in Getting started with GCP to set up billing.
You can launch a VM in your project with a command like this in your local terminal (replace vm-name with a name for your machine):
The current image we created requires GPU accelerator! If you do not specify the accelerator in the command below, you will not be able to access the machine!
Then you can open http://localhost:6080/vnc.html?autoconnect=true to get to your desktop.
Note that this effort is a work in progress with a minimal desktop environment. Further refinement is expected and community contributions would be welcome! A description of the background and possible evolution of this work is in this document.