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We’re just days away from the Samsung Galaxy Ring’s expected launch at this year’s Unpacked event on July 10, and it’ll likely come with AI-powered analytics to offer actionable tips for improving your sleep and well-being.
But if you’re wearing an Oura ring, you’re not left out of the AI action, as the company just unveiled Oura Advisor, a new suite of AI-powered analytics tools, as part of its experimental features program, Labs, and you can try them out right now, too.
All you need is an Oura Ring Gen 3 and an active subscription, then you can opt for Advisor in the Labs tab of the app, which will use “AI to empower [you] reach [your] “Health goals with personalized information, recommendations and encouragement.”
Once activated, you will have all-day access to the AI health coach and can start a conversation with the advisor to ask questions, view progress reports, and get personalized recommendations based on your data and routines.
Oura also says you’ll be able to customize “coaching intensity and focus areas, providing personalized support for targeted lifestyle changes aligned with your personal health goals,” so you can get insights that more accurately reflect your goals.
According to Oura Labs Support PageYou can customize how the advisor responds to you, from a supportive style to a more goal-oriented style. These conversations are saved as “memories” in the Oura app, so you can review or delete them as needed.
Can Oura Advisor compete with Samsung’s AI tools?
There are a few challengers to Oura’s current dominance, like the budget Helio Ring and several others in the early stages or slated to launch in 2024. But the Samsung Galaxy Ring is the first from a major tech company to truly challenge Oura’s position.
And from what we’ve heard so far, Samsung is going all-in on the Ring and its health and fitness ecosystem. It’ll likely be priced around $300 (same as the Oura), but we don’t know if you’ll need a monthly subscription, like the Oura does.
We’ll have to wait until Unpacked to find out exactly what Samsung has in store for us, but we’ve heard that the Galaxy Watches will get new AI features like personalized wellness tips, improved sleep analysis, and specific training thresholds for runners and cyclists.
The AI-powered analysis will likely be done on your phone rather than the watch, so the Samsung Health app could power the entire experience. If that’s the case, it’s reasonable to expect the Ring to have access to similar tools.
The Oura Advisor is one of the company’s first major features to use AI tools, but Oura’s success is largely down to the ring’s interoperability; you can use it with any iPhone or Android phone and connect to a wide range of third-party apps.
Some of the most useful so far include Oura’s integration with exercise app Strava and its partnership with fertility app Natural Cycles, which is so effective it knew our fitness editor was pregnant before she was.
The Samsung Galaxy Ring will likely only work within the Samsung ecosystem, so you’ll need a Samsung Android phone, maybe even a Galaxy Watch, and the Samsung Health app to analyze data and track your progress.
But the key to success for either network is actionable insights. After all, it’s one thing to track your metrics, but all that data is only truly useful if you can do something with it, and that’s where these AI features can really come into their own.
Oura’s tentative first steps into personalized insights seem useful, but feel more like a reaction to the Galaxy Ring’s impending launch. However, we won’t know for sure how the Oura Ring compares to the Galaxy Ring until Unpacked on July 10.