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Smart Footwear Brings Users' Feet to Life In A Virtual Reality World
Brilliant Sole, founded by Jeff Guard, develops a smart shoe insole that brings users' feet into virtual reality through embedded sensors, haptic motors, and wireless communication. The Wilmington, NC-based startup is raising a $500,000 seed round and preparing to demo at CES 2019 after receiving early investment from a local angel group.
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Summary
Brilliant Sole, founded by Jeff Guard, develops a smart shoe insole that brings users' feet into virtual reality through embedded sensors, haptic motors, and wireless communication. The Wilmington, NC-based startup is raising a $500,000 seed round and preparing to demo at CES 2019 after receiving early investment from a local angel group.
Tags
virtual-reality · smart-footwear · haptic-feedback · vr-locomotion · wearable-technology · startup · motion-tracking
Key entities
Jeff Guard (person, 0.98) · Brilliant Sole (organization, 0.99) · HTC Vive (technology, 0.9) · Oculus (technology, 0.9) · Google VR (technology, 0.85) · Wilmington, North Carolina (location, 0.95) · CES 2019 (event, 0.95) · Wilmington Angels for Local Entrepreneurs (organization, 0.92) · VR locomotion (concept, 0.93) · haptic feedback (concept, 0.9) · Muriel Vega (person, 0.85)
Classification
analysis · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 9 Jul 2026