The Oura Ring Generation 3: a fitness tracking ring?!

The Oura Ring isn’t like any other fitness trackers people have used before. For one, it’s a ring, so you wear it on your index finger rather than your wrist. It also doesn’t have any buttons or physical controls.

Many people are generally skeptical of untraditional wearables, especially when you’re expected to actually wear them everyday.

The Oura Ring might look like your average piece of jewelry, but it’s packed with sensors for your heart rate, respiratory rate and body temperature. It also features a 3D accelerometer for detecting movement.

Pros

• durable design
• Thorough sleep tracking
• Rest Mode
• Long battery life

Cons

• Fitting process is tedious

It’s available in four different metal finishes, but you’ll need to use a sizing kit to find the proper fit.

The Oura Ring only needs to be removed for charging every 4-7 days. It’s waterproof and protected against soaps, oils or other elements your fingers may come in contact with.

There are three key elements to the Oura Ring health-tracking experience: Activity, sleep and readiness. The entire Oura Ring experience requires an Oura Membership. It costs $5.99/month. 

The Oura Ring Generation 3 is available now, at a cost of $299 and comes in four finishes: Silver, Black, Stealth and Gold.

Before you get your ring, you’re sent a sizing kit. There are 8 total Oura Ring sizes, but they might not match up with regular ring sizes.

A Oura Ring Generation 3 purchase comes with a complimentary 6-month Oura Membership. Once the trial is done, the Oura Membership costs $5.99/month. The membership is needed for most of the Oura Ring’s features, insights and personalized recommendations.

The three inner ridges house heart rate, respiratory rate and body temperature sensors. For accurate readings, it’s recommended to wear the Oura Ring Generation 3 on your index finger with the slightly-flattened edge of the ring facing up.

The Oura Ring app can track calorie burn, steps, walking equivalency (daily activity burn as a walking distance) and hourly movement. It gauges workout intensity based on your heart rate and minutes of elevated activity, as well using imported workout data from Apple Health or Google Fit.

Oura Ring activity is scored based on how many minutes you’re inactive, how often you’re working out, the amount of recovery time you’re allowing your body and whether you’ve needed push alerts to stand up every hour.

The Oura Ring’s sleep metrics are far more advanced than the Apple Watch’s, and more accurate as well. It knows every time you stir throughout the night, even if you simply opened my eyes to see the time.

The Oura Ring Generation 3 battery life is estimated for 4-7 days. which is just long enough to not get annoying.

When it’s time to charge, the Oura Ring sits on a dedicated wireless charging base. The base’s indicator light turns white to let you know it’s charging. You’ll get a notification on your phone when your Ring reaches 100% battery life, which takes a little over an hour.

I’m conclusion, the Oura Ring does a really good job at disappearing. You only remember you’re wearing it when I want to show it off or it needs to charge. It’s a sleek new perspective to look at fitness trackers, with its precession and size it makes it the perfect companion for people that want accurate health tracking data without a bulky extra device.