UC Berkeley International Alumni Network

Join us for a private luncheon and conversation with Jack McCauley ’86, Co-Founder, Inventor, and Former Chief Engineer at Oculus VR. Space is limited, register early! Click here for menu.
 
Jack McCauley is Innovator in Residence at Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley, Professor at UC Berkeley, Co-founder of Oculus VR, an American engineer, hardware designer, inventor, video game developer and philanthropist. He 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, McCauley designed and built the Oculus DK1 and DK2 virtual reality headsets. In 2014, Oculus was acquired by Facebook for $ 2 Billion. He also holds numerous U.S. patents for inventions in software, audio effects, virtual reality, motion control, computer peripherals, and video game hardware and controllers.  McCauley was awarded a full scholarship to attend University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a BSc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in 1986. He has authored numerous research papers in the field of artificial intelligence (A.I.) and mathematical modeling of A.I.-based systems, and is currently pursuing new projects at his private research & development facility and hardware incubator in Pleasanton, California.