There is a new update for tech wearables now, and it centers on the Oura Ring which recently brought a significant integration for the Apple Watch. It will help combine data from the two wearables that are concerned with one's health and body, focusing on many features like heart rate, blood oxygen, sleep tracking, and more.
The Oura Ring is best known for being a competitor of the Apple Watch as it offers a smaller device for all tracking needs but is now taking a turn for integration.
Oura Ring Integration with Apple Watch Now Live
Oura introduced the Complications and Companion App for the Apple Watch, and this means that users may sync their data from one wearable to the other for a better understanding of their body. It will help combine different information and use it to better inform users of different happenings in their bodies, both delivering data from its features.
It is available for the Oura Ring's Gen 2 and Gen 3 wearables and requires users to have at least the Apple Watch Series 4, updated to at least watchOS 9. It also requires the device to be under iOS 16, and the Oura App sporting version 4.8.1.
The Apple Watch app will mirror what the Oura app brings to iPhones, and it will also include the previous integration of the company with Apple Health to synch more data.
What Does This Integration Bring to Users?
This integration will bring information to different trackers and features of the Oura Ring to mirror the Apple Watch, including:
Readiness
- Readiness Score
- Resting heart rate
- Heart rate variability
- Body temperature
- Respiratory rate
- Readiness contributors
Sleep
- Sleep Score
- Total sleep
- Time in bed
- Sleep efficiency
- Resting heart rate
- Sleep contributors
Activity
- Activity Score
- Activity goal progress
- Total burn
- Walking equivalency
- Steps
- Activity contributors
The Complication data on the Apple Watch would display customizable graphics on the Watch's face, with data like Scores, Activity goal progress, Ring battery level, Heart rate, movement, sleep, and body temperature graphs.
Tech Wearables and Its Offers
Tech wearables are significant accessories to smartphones or may standalone as it is, and it centers on keeping track of different things in a person's body, as well as giving notifications to users. One of the most famous wearables is the Apple Watch, it is an accessory for iPhones to deliver alerts and notices, and track a person's lifestyle, including fitness and workouts.
However, the world has evolved since the Apple Watch and other smartwatch devices were available and focused on other wearables to bring to the public. The emergence of smart rings came with Oura, one of the pioneers in the market, centering on the Oura Ring that delivers a capable tracker for health, fitness, and lifestyle.
Oura Ring and the Apple Watch will share more data with each other, and the Apple Health app would help in delivering more of these for all tech needs.
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