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)

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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.