Conan O’Brien visited YouTube’s VR Lab in New York City and reacted pretty much the way everyone does when they strap on one of the high-tech headsets: he wanted to know about the porn.
“I don’t want to blow your mind with my high-tech talk,” O’Brien said, after letting us know that VR stands for virtual reality, before adding, “I am very interested in what this means for pornography.”
Putting a jokester in VR may very well be the best application for VR. For nearly 8 minutes, O’Brien cracks jokes at the expense of the technology that is supposed to usher in a new way of looking at the world.
- “We are now in the VR Lab. It’s the latest in technology, clearly, which involves I think just green paper. You’ve now achieved what weather channels figured out over 40 years ago.”
- “Oh, man. Look at this! This is going to put the marijuana industry out of business. This is how Woody Harrelson feels all the time.”
- “Is this the moon? I just want to fondle it. Again, it’s all going to go toward porn.”
In a simulation of an office cubicle, O’Brien grabs a virtual donut and tries his hand at making virtual coffee. He then runs a stapler through a virtual copy machine and then his own face. Even in the future, our most juvenile applications for technology come to the surface.
“In the future I’m still an asshole,” O’Brien says as he chucks virtual items over the cubicle wall.
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