Oura Ring gets better fitness metrics, and more integrations

Oura Ring has announced a raft of upgrades intended to provide better fitness metrics, along with new integrations with Apple Health and more. A key strength of the Oura app is the way it helps users make sense of trends across time, and the company has added a new active time trend view … Oura explains: Now rolling out: A new Trend view shows active minutes, empowering members to understand how their daily, weekly, and monthly active time connects to their holistic health. That activity data should also now be more accurate, thanks to a couple of new features. A key challenge with all fitness trackers is distinguishing steps from other moments, and the company thinks it’s now improved the Oura Ring’s performance via a significantly better algorithm. Real Steps is the next iteration in Oura’s step counting algorithm. Rather than estimating step count using generic movement, Real Steps enables Oura to act more like a pedometer, using a more advanced machine-learning model to more a ... Read full article.