Do you need Apple Watch if you have Oura Ring 3?What can you do and what you can do

It's not comparable!But I'm thinking.

Oura Ring 3, the third installment of smart ring, which has a reputation for sleep tracking, has been released.Until now, Oura Ring had a stance of measuring heart rate for sleep quality tracking, but Oura Ring 3 tracks not only during sleep but also on the center rate of 46 o'clock.In the future update, the heart rate during exercise can be measured, and it is going to evolve into a total tracking device including exercise as well as sleep.

After seeing such a touch, I hadn't been able to like Apple Watch for a long time, so I can switch to Oura Ring 3?I thought.Of course, Oura Ring 3 has no screen, so I can't see notifications from the iPhone, but exercise records are likely to be done with OURA, so is it so important in a staying life with notifications and iPhone cooperation?There is also a question.

So I bought Oura Ring 3 and tried it.Is Oura Ring 3 a substitute for Apple Watch?

What you can do with Oura Ring 3

First, organize what you can do with Oura Ring 3.Oura Ring 3 measures heart rate, respiratory rate, body temperature, etc. with fingers, calculates the score of "sleep", "activity" and "condition" based on the application.By looking at each score and the grounds, it is easier to judge, such as "Let's walk one station" or "I'm tired, so let's rest."

In addition to the collective score, you can check detailed analysis such as shallow sleep time and deep sleep time, and general indicators such as calories consumption.Since body temperature is tracked in the form of "change of body temperature", menstrual predictions can be used for women.Then, data such as heart rate during exercise and blood oxygen concentration during sleep will be added in 2022 updates.I don't use much, but meditation and breathing sessions are in the app.Some websites are not compatible with Japanese, but the apps are compatible with Japanese.

The price differs depending on the color, the silver and black are $ 299 (about 34,000 yen), the stealth (matte black) and the gold are $ 399 (about 45,000 yen).If you buy from Japan, you need to pay for tariffs when you receive it, but it seems that it is cheaper to buy it directly on a website than to buy from import agents.In addition, to use the function fully 6 a month.You need a $ 99 (about 800 yen) subscription contract, but it will be free for six months after buying.

Design that is overwhelmingly easy to match

Oura Ring 3 is a slightly thicker unisex design, and there are four colors, so you can wear it like a normal ring according to your own style.It's not as beautiful as you can see, but at least there is no problem with feminine clothes, at least compared to other smartwatches and fitness trackers.In the case of men, some people may be reluctant to the ring itself, but if it is a color around black or stealth, it may be a good accessories.

Personally, since I started wearing an Apple Watch, my clothes and bracelets were not good enough.But if you stop Apple Watch and use Oura Ring 3 only, it seems that you can match most accessories.

In addition, in the sense of wearing, Oura Ring is sent a sizing kit at the time of purchase, and it is decided to try it on (ideally one day) and decides the size, and then the body is sent, so the fit is amazing.Good.You don't have to charge every day, so you can keep it on.

Fine sleep data and "Condition"

Oura is originally a sleep tracking device, so sleep is much more powerful than Apple Watch.With this feeling, it is broken down into four stages: awakening, REM sleep, shallow sleep, and deep sleep, and is visualized in chronological order.

In the case of Apple Watch, the third party has a fine sleep analysis application, but the genuine healthcare app can be seen only in the length of the sleep time and the breadth rate during sleep (with detailed settings).

In addition, Oura Ring 3 has a battery for 4-7 days, so you can keep it on.I want to wear it when I sleep, so I charge it when I do not move to my computer.

Apple Watch, on the other hand, has almost only one day of battery, so it often breaks by sleeping at night.It seems that Apple Watch Series 7 has a high -speed charging function and "it will be 0 % to 80 % in 45 minutes", but if you notice that it is out of charge just before going to bed, you will sleep for tracking.Well, it's too late.

Then, "Condition" is a unique OURA, a comprehensive indicator of the lowest heart rate, body temperature, and exercise on the previous day.It seems that not only the most recent but also the tendency of the past 14 days or two months is taken.I think you know your physical condition, but every day, if you say "82 points today" or "Let's take a rest because it is 69 points today," I feel like there is an excellent butler.I feel a little nice.

The calorie detection result is rather different

As an Apple Watch user, we are worried about how the calories consumed when they are changed to Oura Ring 3 will change.However, the current Oura Ring 3 says that the heart rate during exercise cannot accurately measure the heart rate, so it may not be expected that the accuracy of calories consumption should be expected until the 2022 update.In fact, I tried to wear Apple Watch and Oura Ring 3 and exercise, and the numbers that came out were quite different.By the way, in the Apple Watch, calories other than basal metabolism are displayed as "active kilocalories", but Oura Ring 3 also has a similar indicator called "active calorie consumption", which is compared here.

For example, in 25 minutes walking, Oura Ring 3 is 62kcal and Apple Watch is 32kcal.In 40 minutes jogging, Oura Ring 3 was 305kcal and Apple Watch was 140kcal.I think this tendency is different depending on the type of exercise and physique, but in addition to this, I felt that Oura Ring 3 was more consumption.For those who have a habit of consuming daily calorie normers thanks to the Apple Watch, Oura Ring 3 may suddenly make the goal easier and need to reset the quota.

Speaking of the quota, the idea of setting goals is a very different part between Apple Watch (strictly speaking Watch OS / iOS fitness app) and Oura Ring 3.The Apple Watch is to set calories consumed by exercise per day as "goal", for example, when there is no exercise habit, it was about 350 kcal a day, but now I exercise every day.I set it to about 550kcal a day.But in Oura Ring 3, the target value is fixed based on age and gender, which is a fairly 300kcal figure in my case.

In addition, in the case of Apple Watch, for example, if you exercise twice the target value, you will give you a badge and fuel it, but Oura Ring 3 does not have such a sense of agago, but in some cases, it recommends resting, so I like exercise.It may be a little lonely for people.

In Oura Ring 3, it is good to automatically detect when you exercise such as Apple Watch, but there are about 20 types of exercise to detect automatically.So, if it is not detected, it is necessary to manually record the exercise record after the fact.For example, my underwater fitness (or rather, taking my child to the pool and swimming after seeing the play) was not automatically detected, so I entered it manually.The recording method is to select the type of exercise (selected from about 50 types), the start time, the continuation time, and strength by yourself, and when you complete it, the estimated calorie consumption comes out.

However, the update scheduled for 2022 will be able to measure the heart rate during exercise, so the way the numbers are likely to be changed in the future.Either way, it is said that the calorie consumption that comes out of this kind of fitness tracker is not so accurate, so it may be the right way to stay just looking at the trend.

You may be worried about what will happen when you have more tracking devices when you look at the trend.However, there is a healthcare app of iOS properly.Open the "Active Energy> Data Sauce and Access" in the healthcare app, and there is a part that gives a priority of the application or device that will be the data source.So even if you track with multiple devices, the display on the healthcare app or other fitness management apps should not be strange.For example, if you do something like "usually tracking with Apple Watch and occasionally removing Apple Watch and using only Oura Ring 3", the operation is that only the part where the Apple Watch data is missing is supplemented with Oura Ring 3 data.It is.

What you can't do with Oura Ring 3

So far, I wrote the difference between Oura Ring 3 and Apple Watch, but there are a lot of things that can only be done with Apple Watch.In fact, there are countless Apple Watch apps, so there are overwhelming things that can only be done with Apple Watch.Oura Ring 3 cannot be notified from iPhone or calling.Neither Apple Pay nor Siri can be used, and Spotify or YouTube can be operated.

In fact, there is no screen like Apple Watch, so there is no more basic timer, alarm, and watch function in Oura Ring 3.Anyway, collecting data such as heart rate, body temperature, and changes, analyzing scores such as conditions and activities, and visualizing the app, is Oura Ring 3.

So, can you switch after all?

That's why I think the largest hurdle if you switch from Apple Watch to Oura Ring 3 will not be able to use the functions that link with the iPhone.However, I myself used Apple Watch and Oura Ring 3 simultaneously to write this article, or only Oura Ring 3, but even if I have an Apple Watch, I will notify the notification if I have an iPhone.There was no inconvenience at the point because there were both clocks and clocks.If you always wear Apple Watch, you can see the notification on your wrist, so there is no habit of checking the iPhone from time to time, so when you remove the Apple Watch, you needed to be conscious of smartphone check, but the burden is about that.But depending on the style of work or living, Apple Watch Los Agency may be bigger.

So, personally, I have already stopped Apple Watch and Oura Ring 3 is fine, but what suddenly I want to track calorie consumption and sleep quality in the first place?It is a question that does not have a lid or a lid.In the case of Apple Watch, the function of "you can live without it, but it is convenient" as written above is a set of health tracking that is "I do not know that much but maybe it is.", I am satisfied with the feeling that 60 points + 60 points is 120 points, but Oura Ring 3 is about 75 points specialized for health tracking.If the tracking accuracy during exercise rises, it may be about 85 points.

Moreover, I have already bought Oura Ring 3 and it is hard to throw away the convenience of Apple Watch, so it is likely that the place to drop will be "wear both and remove Apple Watch only when you want to be fancy".But if you're using Apple Watch and you're wondering if you want to buy Oura Ring 3, you should ask yourself if you want to buy a new health.It also costs a monthly subscription.However, I am delighted to think that if you think it doesn't fit your clothes, you can remove the Apple Watch.I don't wear so much clothes and it's a downpurt car every day, but it is better to have a reluctant part at the timing of a fancy once every two months, and the indicators I've checked so far are.I'm so self -satisfied that I want to keep it.

But if you don't have an Apple Watch or smartwatch right now, and you're wondering whether to buy Apple Watch or Oura Ring 3, it's better to think separately because it's different.Just try to buy Apple Watch Series 7, but if there are people in the purpose of seeing, consider the option of buying an Apple Watch SE instead of Series 7, and buying Oura Ring 3 a little more to the floating money.increase.I can't save because it's like this.