VR
Explanation
This comic delivers a simple but effective joke about the commercialization of virtual reality technology.
In the first panel, a person stands at a podium preparing to give a presentation, clearing their throat with "Ahem."
In the second panel, they say a single word: "Porn." The audience responds with thunderous applause.
The final panel reveals the context: a sign reads "This Week: Conference on Commercialization Concepts for VR." The joke is that when it comes to finding commercial applications for virtual reality, the obvious and overwhelmingly dominant answer is pornography -- and everyone in the industry knows it.
This is a recurring observation in technology history: many new media technologies -- including VHS tapes, the early internet, streaming video, and now VR -- have been significantly driven by the adult entertainment industry. The comic reduces an entire professional conference to its single inevitable conclusion. The humor comes from the contrast between the formal, corporate setting (a conference with a fancy title about "commercialization concepts") and the blunt, one-word answer that renders the entire conference unnecessary. The thunderous applause suggests the audience has been sitting through hours of presentations dancing around the obvious, and they're relieved someone finally just said it.