Tourists are still posing for photographs with their families but are fast being outnumbered by groups of chattering fashion students who have gathered to watch the autumn/winter 2011 Burberry catwalk show which – for the first time ever - is about to be beamed live on to the giant billboard screens (pictured below).
Facial recognition cameras are already being fitted to billboard screens so that advertising companies can monitor the sort of people viewing adverts at each location.
Setup will resume automatically with the standard billboard screens, and you will notice installing Windows is highlighted.
People can touch the billboard's screen to view videos about Google's display ad business, all in Google's logo palette of red, yellow, blue and green.
On a billboard-size screen, President Obama (a professional actor with a video-mapped face) delivers a rousing speech, reimagining the 2009 inaugural address as a rallying cry against corporate greed, racism, Second Amendment abuses, a cynical media, and a government that fails the citizens it was elected to serve.
Those words, emblazoned on a billboard-size screen at the back of the stage, all but slap you in the face as you enter the City Center auditorium to see "The Cradle Will Rock," presented through Saturday as the inaugural production of Encores!
She held her hands — her fingers in pink nail polish — gently in her lap, and she spoke in Amharic through a translator, every now and again calmly looking around at the giant billboard video screens flashing advertisements and at the throngs of tourists who barreled past, completely unaware of the superstar in their midst.
The group's capabilities — and its ambitions — have grown since then, of course: Not long after it opens under that swinging bulb, the concert expands to incorporate two additional stages and a billboard-sized screen flashing state-of-the-art visuals; the sound system, with speakers facing down from the ceiling, is another technological advancement.
"People that were on billboards, television screens and people that were ambassadors for big brands and big consumer products.
If your face implodes, I'll cover the Dr. bills!!" He motioned around Times Square at the huge billboards and screens and news tickers.
