James Ashley is an AR/VR Principal Engineer specializing in Apple Vision Pro development. He led an engineering team at Store No. 8, the innovation arm of Walmart and is currently a contract VisionOS developer at CVS Health.



At Store No 8, he led the engineering and software architecture effort for Walmart's internal enterprise Apple Vision Pro app. Tim Cook recognized the app for special attention during Apple’s quarterly earnings call as a significant example of what enterprises can do with the Vision Pro. At the launch of the AVP on February 2nd, he told reporters it was “very cool”.