Jack Wesson

Jack S. Wesson

Assistant Teaching Professor of Game Design & Development

Jack Wesson is an award-winning XR designer, technical artist, and experience designer. He founded and led the Yale University Student Immersive Media and now serves as an alumni mentor for Yale's Blended Reality program, advising on mixed reality applications at the Yale School Medicine and Yale School of Drama. His stories are in textbooks, his work has been featured in the news, and he is a published researcher in IEEE's Games, Entertainment, and Media conference and EDUCAUSE.

While VP of Engineering for a fitness-tech startup, Jack launched its XR division and debuted the division at CES Las Vegas. He earned a Master of Entertainment Technology from Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, working and directing projects in VR, from giving animal senses to humans, to visualizing the thoughts of LLMs. He is currently the CEO of a creative consulting firm, and has consulted on creative projects for Netflix, Google, and the Museum of Ice Cream.

Education

MET, Carnegie Mellon University

Areas of Expertise

Virtual Reality
Augmented Reality
Location-Based Entertainment

Organization

Game Design & Development

Office Location

College of Arts & Sciences 3 307

Mail Drop

CL-AC3