Oura launches Ring 5, a smaller smart ring with upgraded sensors and health software

The new Oura Ring 5 is smaller and has upgraded features to improve how you track your health and fitness. Image courtesy of Oura Ring Oura Ring has announced the release of the newest generation of its smart ring.  The Oura Ring 5 promises to be smaller, more proactive, and more personalized than before.  With the new software portfolio, Oura Ring includes upgraded features that help track more than 50 metrics, including GLP-1 insights. Oura rings are smart devices that help you track your health and fitness. The smart rings track sleep metrics, activity and fitness, and women’s health, such as period tracking.  The Oura Ring 5, released on June 4, promises to deliver even more insights than previous generations.  Every Oura ring has helped track various health metrics, including:  sleep timing and quality sleep regularity sleep oxygen levels average heart rate activity level step count female fertility windows period cycle days and phases Oura Ring 5 offers even more features and personalized tracking, such as special insights for those who use GLP-1 medications.  “Oura Ring 5 is a big step toward our vision of giving every body a voice. By reimagining Oura Ring 5 to be smaller and easier to wear, and pairing it with our most advanced software yet, we’re making it possible for many more people to wear Oura every day — and to benefit from the personalized, predictive health insights that come with it,” Tom Hale, CEO at Oura, said in a statement.  What makes Oura Ring 5 different?  The new Oura Ring 5 is 40% smaller than previous generations, making it the smallest smart ring. It is lighter in order to be more comfortable both day and night.  It also has upgraded, precision sensors to achieve better skin contact, greater consistency, and improved accuracy across more finger types and skin tones.  Alongside the new ring launch, Oura is also releasing a new portfolio of software that promises to make the app more proactive, personalized, and useful in daily life.  New software features include:  Health radar: This includes two new proactive capabilities in addition to the existing experiences — blood pressure signals and nighttime breathing.  Live activity tracking: This lets you start a workout directly in the app and view key metrics in real time. It also improves the accuracy of automatic activity detection for more than 40 activities, including low-motion workouts like yoga and Pilates.  GLP-1 insights: This brings together information people often track in multiple apps, such as dosing, side effects, and weight. It provides a single longitudinal view of your GLP-1 journey, along with Oura insights, so you can see how your medication and daily habits work together over time.  Oura Ring 5 also offers the same long battery life as previous generations. This smaller ring still allows 6 to 9 days between charges. It is also waterproof up to 100 meters.  The Oura Ring 5 comes in six finishes and starts at $399.

Oura Ring 5 is here, 40% smaller — closer to the size of a wedding band — and has some brand new health features. Mark Gurman explores how the Oura Ring has evolved, generation by generation (Source: Bloomberg)

Updates include re-engineered sensors for tighter precision

Oura's latest generation is officially the smallest smart ring on the market.

This is not an Oura Ring 5 review. That's coming later, once I've had enough time to really test the new durability and battery life claims, plus the new software updates that start rolling out today. In the meantime, I did want to provide an answer to a burning question that I've seen asked in […]

The Ring 5, which Oura describes as the world’s smallest smart ring, is 40% smaller than its predecessor and starts at $399.

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Oura’s Ring 5 claims the title of the world’s smallest smart ring.

Oura Ring launched company calls it the smallest smart ring in the world

Oura has launched the Ring 5, a smart ring that is 40% smaller than its predecessor and, at 6.09mm wide and 2.29mm thick, is the smallest smart ring on the market. The ring weighs as little as 2 grams depending on size, down from the Ring 4’s 7.99mm width and 2.88mm thickness. Despite the shrinkage, […] This story continues at The Next Web

This makes it the smallest smart ring in the world, with big implications for your health.

If you’ve been waiting for a smaller version of the Oura Ring, the company’s latest wearable is now available for preorder ahead of its June 4th release from Oura and various third-party retailers, including both Amazon and Walmart. The Oura Ring 5, which starts at $399, is 40 percent smaller than its predecessor, thanks to […]

Oura has made its new smart ring 40% smaller, while adding stronger sensors, a tougher finish, and better battery life.

One of the complaints I’d heard repeatedly since the original Oura Ring debuted in 2015 is that it’s a chunk, far larger than a normal band and more like a prop from a Quentin Tarantino movie. When Oura announced the Oura Ring 5 on Thursday, May 28, the headline wasn’t the larger, more accurate sensors […] The post Pre-Order the Oura Ring 5 (It’s the Smallest One Yet!) appeared first on VICE.

The new Oura Ring 5 has arrived, and it packs a suite of enticing new features for fans of the smart ring form factor. The headline change here is that the Oura Ring 5 is 40% smaller than its predecessor, giving it a design that looks much closer to a traditional ring. There are also new health features, including nighttime blood pressure and breathing trends. It’s the latest example of the increasing Apple Watch competition … more…

Oura, the smart ring maker, is set to launch what it says will be the smallest smart ring available in the growing wearables market.

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More health tracking in a much smaller device.

Finnish-US startup has sold 5.5m rings worldwide since it was founded in 2013 and is valued at $11bnStylish Finnish-American smart ring company Oura may be the darling of wearables, adorning the fingers of celebrities and sportspeople, but it is not resting on its laurels as it heads towards an IPO later this year. This week it launched the world’s smallest smart ring, the Ring 5, its latest evolution of the device that defined a whole category.The Ring 5 is 40% smaller and with longer battery life than the highly popular Ring 4. It also promises to squeeze the health-tracking features of a smartwatch into a less techy piece of jewellery just 2.28mm thick, focused on sleep, stress, readiness and heart health. Continue reading...

Oura Health Oy, the popular smart ring maker seeking to go public this year, unveiled a significantly thinner and lighter new model along with new wellness features.

The Oura Ring 5 has launched with a whole host of improvements, including several new app features for all members.

The new ring will be thinner than others on the market, and Oura's app is launching several new health features to go with it.

It’s slimmer, lighter, and more durable. But the real upgrade is Oura’s push into AI-powered health insights and proactive monitoring.

The ring is 40% smaller than its predecessor, and comes with more accurate sensing, enhanced battery life, and more.

Oura describes its new wearable as the 'world's smallest' smart ring.