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TL;DR Oura has officially announced the Oura Ring 5.
The new ring is 40% smaller than the previous generation and adds blood pressure trend monitoring, live activity tracking, and other expanded health features.
The Oura Ring 5 starts at $399 and begins shipping on June 4.
Smart rings are already tiny tracking powerhouses, but Oura still found room to shrink things further. Today, the company announced the Oura Ring 5, a dramatically slimmer new generation that also expands Oura’s focus on proactive health tracking.
The Ring 5 is 40% smaller than the previous model, which is a pretty wild reduction for a category that already packs a ton of tech into very small packaging. To accommodate the change, the smart ring features updated sensing architecture with more powerful LEDs and improved signal quality that should actually boost accuracy across more skin tones.
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Beyond hardware, Oura’s biggest push this year is proactive health features. Building on the company’s Symptom Radar tool, the new Health Radar tracks more long-term biometric trends, including Blood Pressure Signals. Blood Pressure Signals looks at overnight cardiovascular patterns and helps flag potential signs of rising blood pressure over time. The feature is meant to supplement, not replace, traditional cuffs, so users can now manually log cuff readings inside the Oura app as well.
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