Jack McCauley
| Jack Jean McCauley | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 3, 1959 (age 57) Battle Creek, Michigan, United States |
| Residence | Reno, Nevada |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | Bachelor of Science, University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | Inventor, engineer, video game developer |
| Known for | Guitar Hero, Oculus Rift |
| Children | Sean McCauley, William McCauley |
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Jack McCauley is an American engineer, hardware designer, inventor, video game developer and philanthropist. McCauley is best known for designing the guitars and drums for the Guitar Hero video game series, and as a co-founder and Chief Engineer at Oculus VR, which was later acquired by Facebook for $2 billion. At Oculus McCauley led the team that designed and built the Oculus DK1 and DK2 virtual reality headsets.
McCauley was born on December 3, 1959 in Battle Creek, Michigan. McCauley grew up in the Groenekan, Netherlands before moving to Concord, California. From an early age, he loved taking things apart, building them into something new, exploring everything from basic spatial relationships to electronics. At age 9, McCauley won a nationwide contest and was awarded a Junior Tinker Engineer Award by the A.J. Spaulding Corporation, makers of The Original TinkerToy, for an original toy design submission.
McCauley spent his formative years engaged in artistic and experimental activities. McCauley developed a talent for mathematics and science which he combined with mechanical abilities to experiment with chemicals, create explosives, and build gas powered vehicles including go-karts and motorcycles, which he rode around his neighborhood.
In 1980, McCauley was accepted into the U.S. Navy Nuclear Power School. Impressed by his talent, the Department of Defense awarded McCauley a full scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering where he specialized in electronics and circuit theory, and earned as BSc., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from UC Berkeley in 1986.
McCauley credits U.C. Berkeley with rocketing him into a career as an engineer, “I largely skated through high school with minimal effort and arrived at Berkeley with poor study skills and academic habits. Cal change everything for me.”
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