Atari cofounder Nolan Bushnell is bullish on virtual reality

Last week, I saw industry legend, Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s cofounder Nolan Bushnell, talk at the 2016 NXNE Future Land Interactive Conference in Toronto. Bushnell was at the event thanks to AMD (whom he credited with saving Atari with a line-of-credit extension) to talk about his storied past in the interactive entertainment industry as well as its present state and where the future may take us.

Bushnell took us through the greatest hits of his long career, including how he got into the electronic gaming industry, the creation of Pong, and the founding of Atari. He also gave the two Steves, Wozniak and Jobs, their first jobs in the industry when they worked at Atari and built the hardware for the arcade game Breakout.