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I bought Oura a couple of years ago because it's a ring that runs Linux and gives you some insight into your life. Well, it does run Linux, but the rest - not
by eps 4y ago
I bought Oura a couple of years ago because it's a ring that runs Linux and gives you some insight into your life.
Well, it does run Linux, but the rest - not so much.
Did side by side tests with another sleep tracker and Oura was pulling its data seemingly out of its ass. Completely random stuff. After seeing that all other data it reported didn't instill much confidence either, nor did it correspond to what I was actually observing. So packed it up and stashed into a closet. It's still a cool gadget, but inaccurate to the point of being utterly useless.
- jonahbenton 4y agoYeah, I have definitely seen an evolution, shall we say, in their modeling and data aggregation and smoothing. Oura is doing a public "beta" of a new sleep model now and it is VERY different! But much better. So it goes. There are also inherent power limitations in the ring form factor compared to the watch, which impact data granularity. If you want to be monitoring apnea you really need seconds level resolution, and Oura is tens of seconds. Anyway, agree about limitations. It has still been very useful for me! Cheers.
- lobocinza 4y agoThat applies to most wearables unfortunately. I was thinking on buying a moderately priced smartwatch to track my BPM during exercise but correlation can be as slow on 0.3 on some devices and with delay and never accurately reporting peaks and valleys due to aggressive exponential smoothing. Just bought a cheap ANT+ chest strap instead, does the job without requiring an app.