Tech Tour: ABC News' Election 2012 Times Square Studio

If you caught " World News" over the past two nights you probably noticed its new temporary digs. The studio, located in Times Square, is the home of ABC News' 2012 election coverage. And while its purpose it to bring you the latest results from the big race tonight, it is also one very high tech studio.

In the center of the studio floor is a large, high-resolution circular LED screen (a Barco NX4, if you're looking for specifics). For the moment it shows the ABC logo, but during election coverage it will also show graphics, including polling data and maps. The screen, which you cannot stand on, has been covered with a fusion material to prevent glare. Beyond it sit the election-night anchors, Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos.

It all makes for a pretty stunning visual when the camera pulls out, which you can check out in this clip below:

Around the circle are three rows of desks (two for researchers, another with ABC News political contributors) and behind them is another big screen. That screen, which is actually made of seven vertical screens, will show the latest polling data.

But perhaps the most interesting screens live in the corner. It's there that Katie Couric will command the social media news, displaying information on a large 82-inch touchscreen and on another transparent screen (internally being called the "Minority Report" screen). The front-projected "Minority Report" display (pictured left in the photo below) will pull in tweets to @katiecouric with the hashtag #yourvote. The other screen (pictured right below) will show various social media and search data graphics; Couric will be tapping and touching it on air.

Couric, along with a team of 20 dedicated to social media, will be sifting through Google and Yahoo trends (what people are searching for in real time through those sites), plus millions of tweets and Instagram photos. The team will also use Topsy to analyze the sentiment of tweets, along with Storyful and Storify to help mine the content. Couric, along with ABC News' social media lead Andrew Springer, will be live tweeting from the set as well.

Back uptown at ABC News headquarters in New York, the digital team will separately be streaming live, anchored coverage on ABCNews.com, Yahoo.com, GoodMorningAmerica.com, and YouTube. The team will also be updating an interactive map / infographic with real-time results.

Maya Baratz and Andrew Springer contributed to this article.