Oura Ring users can now share sleep scores with friends
The Oura Ring is still a fairly niche device, so it makes sense that the company is trying to bolster community. | Image: Victoria Song / The Verge
Oura is adding a new community feature to its smart sleep tracking ring. Starting today, you’ll now be able to create or join “Circles,” which are private groups where you can share readiness, sleep, and activity scores from the past two weeks. The company is also finally moving its new sleep staging algorithm out of beta for both iOS and Android users — though you may or may not like what it has to tell you.
Any user can create an Oura Circle and invite others to join via a shared link, provided the person you’re inviting is also an Oura member. When creating or joining a Circle, you can also customize what data gets shared. For example, if you’d rather that Judgy John from Accounting didn’t see your activity score, you don’t have to…
