The son of a United States Armed Forces officer, McCauley’s early life began in De Bilt, Netherlands.

From an early age, McCauley loved taking things apart, building them into something new, exploring everything from basic spatial relationships to electronics.

[5] He later attended University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering, where he specialized in electronics and circuit theory and earned a BSc.

[9] McCauley joined Oculus VR as vice president of engineering in August 2012, shortly after the company raised millions of dollars on Kickstarter for their first development kit.

[17] In 2017, McCauley joined Lucid VR as Chief Engineer to lead worldwide manufacturing of their flagship virtual and augmented reality camera, the VR180 LucidCam.