Jack
McCauley
Co-Founder, Chief Engineer
Oculus VR
Jack is one of the great modern inventors, as well as Professor and Innovator in Residence at Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley. At Oculus, Jack designed and built the Oculus DK1 and DK2 virtual reality headsets, prior to the acquisition of the company in 2014 by Facebook for $2 billion. He holds numerous U.S. patents for inventions in software, audio effects, virtual reality, motion control, computer peripherals, and video game hardware and controllers. Jack was the Chief Engineer leading the hardware and intellectual property development for the GuitarHero franchise. Jack’s most recent R&D project, at Black Lab LLC, is a vehicle which incorporates augmented features and a computerized display.