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In case by "competitor", you're referring to Ultrahuman, I disagree that they're a competitor. Ultrahuman provides an overwhelming amount of information and a
by Youden 2y ago
In case by "competitor", you're referring to Ultrahuman, I disagree that they're a competitor.
Ultrahuman provides an overwhelming amount of information and a lot of useful-seeming recommendations on top of it but in my experience, the data collected by Ultrahuman are inaccurate to the point of being useless. For example I can be exercising with an ECG chest strap recording a heart rate of 170bpm and the Ultrahuman ring will consistently report 90bpm.
I haven't tried Oura personally (hard to get it in my region) but they do have a decent quantity of well-run studies to validate their measurements. Ultrahuman has close to zero validation. They do have their metabolic score feature that has some amount of proper validation but it's essentially a nicer UI for some very mature hardware from a completely different company.
If there's a real competitor without a subscription fee though, I'd love to hear about it.
- aucisson_masque 2y agoYes it was what I had in mind, Although I'd say that any finger ring will give you inaccurate heart rate data when doing any kind of movement, including oura ring. These device are basically useful for one thing :monitor HRV while sleeping and maybe resting heart rate. That's all. Both can be done manually and more accurately at wake up with an app like elitehrv and polar H10 chest strap. I tried it, I tried the whoop, I tried many different brand sport watch. At the end of you remove the gimmicky feature these fitness device are all quite similar.