Jack McCauley is an American engineer, hardware designer, inventor, video game developer and philanthropist.
17 Facts About Jack McCauley
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Jack McCauley later worked at Oculus VR, which was eventually acquired by Facebook for $2 billion.
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From an early age, Jack McCauley loved taking things apart, building them into something new, exploring everything from basic spatial relationships to electronics.
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In 1980, Jack McCauley was accepted into the US Navy Nuclear Power School.
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Jack McCauley later attended University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering, where he specialized in electronics and circuit theory and earned a BSc.
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Jack McCauley began his professional career at the US Department of Defense.
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Jack McCauley helped develop USB drivers, kernel mode drivers, arcade machines and video game related peripherals.
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Jack McCauley designed many of the guitar and drum peripherals for the Guitar Hero video game series.
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In 2005 Jack McCauley joined RedOctane, where he served as an engineer on the Guitar Hero team.
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Jack McCauley stayed on after RedOctane became a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision, eventually departing in 2009.
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Jack McCauley created the hardware for early Guitar Hero guitars by reverse-engineering the guitars used in the Konami game Guitar Freaks.
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Jack McCauley designed hardware peripherals for Silent Scope and EA Sports Active 2.
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Jack McCauley joined Oculus VR as vice president of engineering in August of 2012, shortly after the company raised millions of dollars on Kickstarter for their first development kit.
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Jack McCauley served as VP Engineering at Oculus until March of 2014 when the company was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion.
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Jack McCauley left Oculus immediately after the acquisition was completed.
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In 2017, Jack McCauley joined Lucid VR as Chief Engineer to lead worldwide manufacturing of their flagship virtual and augmented reality camera, the VR180 LucidCam.
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Jack McCauley worked on creating audio effects; computer peripherals; game controllers; light gun technology; composite HID USB device for gaming; and guitar and drum controllers for the Guitar Hero franchise.