Oura Unveils Smaller, Thinner Smart Ring with Enhanced Battery Life and Advanced Health Features

Oura has announced the launch of its latest smart ring, the Ring 5, which boasts a sleeker design and improved features that take its health monitoring capabilities to the next level.

Revolutionizing Smart Ring Design

The Ring 5 is 40% smaller than its predecessor, the Ring 4, making it the world's smallest smart ring. Oura has achieved this significant reduction in size by redesigning the mechanical, electrical, optical, battery, and sensing architectures. The new design is not only smaller but also thinner, making it more desirable to a broader audience, especially those who have found smart rings too bulky in the past.

Oura VP of Product, Maz Brumand, noted that the company reduced the ring's width by about two millimeters and its thickness by roughly 30%. This shift towards a slimmer design was prompted by user feedback, with Oura members asking for a smaller and thinner ring.

Enhanced Battery Life and Advanced Health Features

The Ring 5 offers improved battery life, lasting between six to nine days, compared to the five to eight days on the Ring 4. Oura has also reengineered its sensors for better skin contact and added more powerful LEDs to increase accuracy across a wider range of finger sizes and skin tones.

• Blood Pressure Signals: Oura will continuously detect shifts and patterns that may indicate cardiovascular strain, alerting members when their biometrics suggest signs of increasing blood pressure.
• Live Activity Tracking: Members can start a workout and view key metrics in real time on their phone, such as pace and distance during activities like running and cycling.
• On-Demand Care: Oura is partnering with Counsel Health, an on-demand platform that combines AI with licensed physicians to bring care directly into the Oura app. Members will be able to ask health questions, receive personalized medical advice, and connect with licensed physicians in the U.S.

New Software Updates and Brain Health Study

Oura is launching "Health Radar," which is designed to monitor key biometric signals in the background to surface patterns members should pay attention to. The company is also adding a new live activity tracking experience and updating its "Automatic Activity Detection" to be more accurate for low-motion activities, like pilates. Members can also connect third-party heart rate monitors to see their heart rate in real time.

• GLP-1 insights: Oura will give members a longitudinal view of their medication journey and track weight and body changes in one place.
• Brain Health Study: Eligible members will be able to enroll in a Brain Health Study that seeks to match short in-app tasks with long-term physiological trends.

Availability and Pricing

The Ring 5 is available for pre-order starting today and will start shipping on June 4. It's available in sizes 6 to 13 and comes in six finishes, including a redesigned Gold with a truer gold tone, an updated Deep Rose with a copper-like look, plus Silver, Brushed Silver, Black, and Stealth. The Black and Silver retail for $399, while the rest cost $499.