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But Ive spent years eyeing the gray and black smart rings on my friends' and colleagues hands.
Its not a fitness tracker, its a health tracker.
Setting up the Oura Gen 3 is easy, and the entire experience is made more useful when you give it access to your Apple Health stats.
Health is what you should be looking at every day, noted Hale.
One thats lower than your actual age is good news for you.
As of this writing, the feature was still slowly rolling out to users.
Setting up the Oura Gen 3 is easy, and the entire experience is made more useful when you give it access to your Apple Health stats.
Finally, there is the low-profile benefit of a smart ring: no screen, no taps.
It just passively reads your health, activity, and sleep state.
Granted, theres the associated Oura app screen, but I wondered how often Id even look at that.
The Oura sizing box(Image credit: Future / Lance Ulanoff)
(Narrator: More than he thought but still not enough.)
Sleeping with it was important, too, because, as Hale explained, fingers swell at night.
(Narrator: Lances sleeping fingers swell far more than he thought.)
(Image credit: Future / Lance Ulanoff)
Once you register on the site, Oura will send out a sizing kit with eight different sizes.
I chose my ring finger on my right hand and then a size 10 dummy.
A week later, the Oura ring arrived.
Eight size options but the size you choose will depend on the finger you use.(Image credit: Future / Lance Ulanoff)
Compared to my wedding ring, the Oura Ring is statement-sized.
Nevertheless, the ring is comfortable, and I quickly forgot I was wearing it.
I got notifications on my iPhone to get moving and that Id been more or less active than usual.
(Image credit: Future / Lance Ulanoff)
Part of me wonders if all this tracking makes any sense at all…but I digress.
While the shuteye was good, I wondered where the Oura app was keeping my sleep stats.
It seemed to miss days at a time.
The Oura app is packed with information and at-a-glance scores for, among other things, sleep and readiness.
Then I noticed it was also missing my workouts.
This was not consistently the case.
My morning workouts include curls, pushups, crunches, isometrics, and pull-ups.
Get ready to confirm your activity.
The Oura Ring proved perfect for all but one of these routines.
I tried a pullup with the ring on and the band pressed painfully into my digit.
I had to remove it and switch to the watch.
Resilience is an interesting metric. Not sure I felt different on days where my Resilience didn’t at least measure as “Moderate”.
I also found I couldn’t bowl with it on.
The Oura App is deep and rangy, with frequent pitches for new features.
Hale told me, People dont always understand how deep the software experience is, and its true.
Its the kind of app that prizes depth sometimes over clarity.
There are things about the Oura App and system that I like.
I find sleep tracking accurate and insightful.
Its not that it helps me get a better sleep, but it does commiserate when Ive slept poorly.
Oura ring is essentially waterproof, meaning I no longer worry about removing my wearable before a shower.
As Hale promised, battery life is longer than I get with theApple Watch Series 9.
If the little indent (a.k.a.
Occasionally, Id have to twist the ring around until the sensors were in the right position.
Hmm, maybe thats why my HRV was a bit off.
I cant recall if I ever noticed a fully charged alert from the app.
Im still wearing the Oura Ring, but I dont know if Im committed to it.
Yes, that rings true to me.
