Jack McCauley
Professor at UC Berkeley, Co-Founder of Oculus
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Jack McCauley an Innovator in Residence at Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley,
Professor at UC Berkeley, Co-Founder of Oculus, an American engineer, hardware designer, inventor,
video game developer and philanthropist. Jack is best known for designing the guitars and drums for
the Guitar Hero video game series, and as a co-founder and former chief engineer at Oculus VR. At
Oculus, Jack designed and built the Oculus DK1 and DK2 virtual reality headsets. Oculus was acquired
by Facebook for $2 Billion. McCauley 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 awarded a full scholarship to attend University of California, Berkeley where he
earned as BSc., EECS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1986. Jack has authored
numerous research papers in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and mathematical modeling of AI-
based systems and is currently pursuing new projects at his private R&D facility and hardware
incubator in Northern California.
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Jack McCauley
Professor at UC Berkeley, Co-Founder of Oculus
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