The next-generation smart ring features a proprietary sensing platform for best-in-class accuracy and personalization, sleek design delivering improved comfort, and a reimagined app experience for all Oura Members.
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The Oura Ring 4 looks like a great update, including a redesign of the Oura app.
Particularly, the new uniform design seems to improve both the data is collects and the effectiveness of the software in how it collects it:
At a glance, the Oura Ring 4 doesn’t look too different from the Gen 3. However, the new ring will be fully made from titanium. (The previous ring had an epoxy interior.) All the rings will also be completely round, like the current Horizon models, with no flat edge. Perhaps most notably, the sensors no longer have protruding dome-shaped covers. Instead, they’re recessed for a flatter, more comfortable profile.
The bigger update, however, comes from software. Oura says its new algorithm helps solve a major problem with smart rings — the fact that everyone’s fingers are different and smart rings can move out of alignment during the day. That can mean sensors aren’t pulling data from the optimal place, which leads to gaps in data. To solve that, the new algorithm increases the number of signal pathways from eight to 18. Supposedly, that allows it to pick which signal is best at a given time.
Not sure I'm going to upgrade my Gen 3 just yet, but improved data collection is a compelling value prop for me.
About Oura Ring 4 on Product Hunt
“Slimmer design, improved accuracy, and more sizes”
Oura Ring 4 launched on Product Hunt on October 4th, 2024 and earned 195 upvotes and 14 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. The next-generation smart ring features a proprietary sensing platform for best-in-class accuracy and personalization, sleek design delivering improved comfort, and a reimagined app experience for all Oura Members.
On the analytics side, Oura Ring 4 competes within Health & Fitness, Hardware and Wearables — topics that collectively have 276.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Oura Ring 4 performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Oura Ring 4?
Oura Ring 4 was hunted by Chris Messina. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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