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Jack McCauley
Innovator in Residence UC Berkeley

American inventor. Professor and Innovator in Residence at Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley. Oculus VR Co-Founder and former Chief Engineer. Now active in automotive technology, building cars at his private R&D facility and hardware incubator in Livermore, CA. 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 awarded a full scholarship to attend University of California, Berkeley where he earned a BSc., EECS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1986. He currently serves as an Innovator in Residence at Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley. Jack is pursuing new projects at his private R&D facility and hardware incubator in Livermore, Calif. Jack is one of the greatest living inventors.

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Jun 3

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World Builders: The How (and Why) of Building Virtual Worlds in the Metaverse

Jenna Seiden | Skydance Interactive

Jack McCauley | UC Berkeley

Jacqueline Bo?njak | Mach1

Maureen Fan | Baobab Studios

Marcie Jastrow | Evercast