 Hello and today, I am going to review the new oar rings I've got two of them here. I've got the black Stealth heritage size 13 ring, which is the one I use and I've got my wise balance silver size 8 ring So we're gonna take a deep dive into this I'm gonna review the rings the app the software and everything in between I'm from Alex figures.com. Well, actually, I'm not from Alex face.com I just write over at Alex face.com So if you're watching this on my blog at Alex face.com, hi, welcome If you're watching this at YouTube be sure to hit over there because I do have a very comprehensive review like it's it's really long Like 10,000 words long told you it's long But it covers everything so if you're interested in buying one of these I highly recommend checking that out I've got a bunch of videos on my YouTube channel. You know training with this ring in if All sorts of other things so check them out as well Otherwise just ask if you got a question about this. I have been an oar ring user for a couple years now Here's my gin one big chunky thing, which I still love Commit to the new one. Yeah, I use this for about two years or so And now this one for a couple months. So I've got a lot of experience with oaring. I've researched a lot I've looked at the technology behind it all and a lot of my clients use it So yeah, I know a lot about So look at me. I know a lot about it anyway So yeah, feel free to well first check out all my content But also I'm feel free to ask a question if you want to know more one other thing is or I have given me a discount code It is my name Alex Fergus or one word a lex if you are gus And you can plug that in and you should save a few dollars or a few percent I'm not 100% too sure it seems to change every now and then but I do get a kickback from that So if you don't want to help me, um, don't use the code, but then of course you'll pay more So, you know, it's a win-win if you use it. Anyway, let's get into it So what I'm gonna do with this review is I'm going to cover three parts. I'm gonna do the ring itself Physical ring and then I'm going to do the gap and then I'm gonna do the software. So it might take a while So grab a coffee or kombucha or ginger beer whatever you want to drink and Enjoy and if you want to speed it up play it in fast-forward note. All right. So firstly Let's get into, you know, you know, I'll do I'll do an overview first. All right. So what do we know about this ring? It's 299 the starting 299 actually this one 399 this one's 299 It's tracks your sleep your activity Your recovery your resilience Attracts a ton of metrics has a really cool app since the app shows you all this data And or I've come up with some really neat algorithms giving you like key takeaways You know, like how well recovered you are and your sleep score and all that cool jazz This is the second generation product. The first one like I said before is a lot bigger The new one is much smaller has an increased battery life. It's now over a week long The other one was only a couple days has some advanced sensors inside like more accurate body temperature upgraded CPU and Also comes with a wireless charging device So, yeah, that's a bit about it. Let's get into it So firstly the sensors in this ring Include a body temperature sensor include infrared optical LED sensors and that's what's measuring your heart rate and movement. Oh, not movement sorry and heart rate variability and then the ring can pull that data and Come up with They've got these unique algorithms. I go into the technology technology Man, I really struggled that word the technical details. Don't know what's going on I missed my supplements this morning, perhaps. Anyway, um In the first article I go into how it all works I didn't do that for the second review because I've already done it and you can head over and read that first review everything in the one what the one Ring to rule them all slow down Alex and that has the review on this first one, but also goes into how all this amazing Technology works So I'm not gonna cover that again today, but yeah, it's got that and it's also got Accelerometer and a gyroscope in it. So that's what's picking up the movement and also using that data for sleep. Okay From these sensors the ring I've got my notes here because there's a lot to talk about from these sensors The ring is able to measure heart rate heart rate variability respiration rate Movement activity body temperature sleep including sleep stages sleep latency wake times And much much more much more I honestly a lot and you're gonna see some of this in part two when I show the app So yeah, that's what it's doing all Through your finger Which is kind of crazy when you think about it actually, you know, let's look at let's look at the design mix So design wise You can see the ring on me here. This is a size 13 Stealth heritage. This is the size eight. It's my wife's silver balance. Okay now the difference If you go to the website or ring comm You'll see the options between the two designs the heritage. I can get off my finger here is quite It's got a flat top. I'm gonna leave the camera here so you can see it down here All right. Well, well, there we go. So the heritage this one has a flat top here If it shows up, I don't even know where it is See that flat top and Now that balance has a peak a very small peak now if you go on the website See that peak This is the flat top if you go on the website these Differences are quite pronounced. Okay, and I was actually quite. I don't know what the word is surprised disappointed They're not when you see them in person I mean you can't really tell the difference between them. Can you like it took me a while there to figure out even Where the design was is that a bad thing a good thing? I mean it doesn't really bother me I didn't buy it for its looks. I bought it for its bought it for its features But yeah, I mean I get a lot of people ask me Oh, should I go the peak the balance or the flat heritage to be honest? It doesn't really matter. Just get Whichever one whichever one's gonna ship fastest? Pella wise they do a silver they do a black which is a glossy black which I don't have they do a rose gold And then they do the stealth one which is like a matte black the stealth one is a hundred dollars extra Okay, and then they do a balance diamond, which is like a silver with five diamonds through the middle there Um, that costs like a thousand dollars. This one is $2.99. This one is $3.99 And hindsight if if I lost that there goes my phone I'm just gonna let it ring if if I lost that My $3.99 ring to be honest, I'd probably just go and buy the cheaper one but that's because I don't really Get too much about how it looks and um, yeah, that's just me anyway You can see on the inside here Let's see if we can see see the chips see the sensors in there And some in somewhere through that band is the battery. Sorry about the phone It'll stop soon. I hope And you can see the sensors in here as well so it is pretty small Especially compared to the first one again, I'll show it on my finger so yeah, I've got my wedding band ring on this finger and The size eight on my pinky So yeah, it's not too bulky And this is like super professional videoing So yeah, that's the design to design shapes multiple colors Impressions of the ring. It is very light. It's made of titanium This one was made of ceramic and it was quite dense plus it is big bulky These are light like honestly the first time I picked it up like I almost thought it was like plastic But it's not it's titanium and it's super strong like I'm squeezing that now. I Didn't hear anything but it gets to a point where I'm like, oh, will I break it? You know what one day I might try break it Just for YouTube entertainment Maybe I'll break this one We'll see anyway, um Yeah, they are super strong. So yeah, you don't have to worry about that. I Farm with it. I use it every day. I use it in the sauna Swimming with it haven't had a problem. I've trained with it a little bit. Not too much. I haven't been doing that much training lately Sorry But I am gonna go out and do a video with me training on it to see how it holds up I also trained with this one and did some quite heavy deadlifts and it held up fine However, there are a few scratches on it. I don't know if you can see it here Because it's focusing on my face But there are some tiny scratches You know hit over to alexfegers.com and check out the review because I'll put some photos up of those scratches as but I'm not worried about it. Like some people are taking it off whenever they go in the garden or do stuff I don't really care Like if it gets all scratched up so be it like as long as it's tracking my sleep and all that I'm happy but I can understand why people, you know, it's been a lot of money for a ring They want it to look good. I don't know how this will hold up Because my wife hasn't been using it during the day. She only sleeps with it So there's no scratches on this one, but being the silver and why don't you be better being the matte black on here? It seems to be more prone to the scratches. So, you know, if you are worried about it, maybe go silver I'll keep you updated though. Like subscribe to my youtube channel and I'll put an update up battery life We're getting I'm getting I did eight days. All right, and I checked the battery and it was 20% at that point I think that was in the morning. I think if I went to bed that night, it may not have tracked my sleep that night Though it would still retain the data. So, you know eight days are a long time. They say a week But yeah, I pushed it out to eight days But pretty good I mean again, like you could charge it once a week and you don't have to worry about every day when you are charging it From 20% back to 100% it took me about 40 minutes But when you're doing like your day to day charge because I charge it every morning I get up put it on the charger. I You know five to a minute and it seems to top it up So it's not long, you know, you put it on when you go have a shower You put it back on after the shower and you don't have to take it off when you're sharing by the way For me personally, I get up in the morning. I take it off I sync my data and it's charging and then I do a juve red light session for you know 15 minutes, then I put it back on so it works perfect for me Comes with a wireless charger I'll show you this one. So this is the charging device here, which is quite nice compared to the gen one charger and Yeah, it doesn't have any Like connections exposed connections. You just set it on the dock like so Okay, so it can fall off whereas the gen one It had these exposed middle points They pushed it in and it would stay there comes with the USB C cable This one so that's pretty cool When you charge it, I don't have a power point anywhere. Anyway, there's a tiny white light at the top it blinks or flashes or glows Pulses when it's charging and it remains on when it's charged So it's pretty easy to know what's going on. Otherwise. There's no there's no buttons. There's no screens There's no displays on this. There's no moving parts. Well, there's the gyroscope and accelerometer Accelerometer inside so I'm assuming that's moved but moving but you can't see anything. I mean, there's no It's not going to get caught up on anything. There's no Inputs or plugs or you know, no places for water or dirt to get into it is I don't know if I mentioned But it's a waterproof for 100 meters. I believe which is insane. Like, I mean if you're going 100 meters down like That's pretty impressive. Um The charger though one thing I don't like about this is You have different charging Docks devices pads for each ring. So I've got my size 13 one And then my size eight one now that kind of annoyed me because I If we get traveling like if we go away for a weekend We have to take two on not for a weekend if we go traveling for like an extended period We have to take two charges like I've got to take mine and my wife has to take hers And also on a day-to-day basis. We have to um Just have thought we have to Have both of them out on the bench, you know, so she can charge hers and I can charge mine We're just kind of annoying like you think a wireless charging device that would just be able to charge all ring sizes But my thought that I had like a few moments ago when I when you lost me for a few seconds there I wonder if I can put my big one on the small charger if it was still very charge I'm going to try that I'll let you know how it goes. Uh, but you know, that's a bit of a downside, but hopefully I can use a smaller What else what else it's got airplane mode just like the first generation one did so you can turn bluetooth transmitter off So it's not radiating you it's not pulsing you with Um the bluetooth radiation, which is a big thing for me And um, yeah, that's cool. So to to take it out of that airplane mode all you do is Oh, I just put it on the charger and then sync it and then that Reenables the transmitter and then I'll turn my phone on Sink it up and you can get all the data and then from there you can put it back into airplane mode. It's quite a simple process um That's about it On the ring side. I think we should get into the app Um, just trying to think Yeah, if I've missed anything or you want to know more check out the review Because there's so much in there. I just want to keep this quick even though. It's already been 14 minutes crazy Uh, but yeah, let's get into the review Of the app because we've already done the review But we'll do the app review and then we'll do the cloud review and then that'll be the end of me talking All right, so now I'm going to go through the or ring app. This is the iphone app Um, I haven't used the android app. So for those of you who have uh got android You would just have to bear with me and hope that this is similar So you may have noticed as soon as I logged in there up above the top of the screen just under the time there um, it came out updating and this blue bar just Uh flashed across the screen. Um, so what's happening there is my phone is in bluetooth mode or bluetooth is enabled and um It was just syncing to the ring which is right beside my phone here But because I'd already done an update this morning, um that update was only a second or two So the first thing i'm actually going to do is uh turn the ring into airplane mode So for that i'm going to go up to the top right hand corner and this this shows all the data Um About your ring. So it's got your battery level. So I've just taken it off the charge there 100 percent and um You can turn into ring airplane mode there. So what i'm going to do is i'm going to hit that Turn into airplane mode Takes a few seconds done. So now the ring is uh, the bluetooth transmitter is turned off and i'm also going to turn off Bluetooth on my phone. Okay, cool. So now first thing first when you log in, uh, or you open up that you see Um, the readiness score now if you've read this over at alexfews.com my ordering review Uh, pretty much I go into this in a lot of detail on the blog So if you haven't already hit over to alexfews.com read that review This video is just meant to compliment that review. So, you know, first things first, you see your readiness score Which is out of 100 I believe um So that yeah, i'm not going to go into all the details, but that that number just shows you, uh, your state of health um How well recovered you are, you know All those sort of things. Um, as soon as you open the app, so That's the first thing i'm looking at then there's a little bit of text there How you feeling that changes on day to day to be honest I mean, it's cool the first few weeks when you have the app, but after that you kind of start reading it Or at least I do um Oh, and it's got your optimal bedtime is between 845 and 945 funny because in the review I Mentioned how I hadn't seen that for a while. I was actually looking further down in the app So, um, I have to go back and update that so that's a cool feature That's new with this app how it how it's looking at all your data and uh, giving you your recommended bedtime. So Um, yeah, that's pretty cool. So then last night as you scroll down remember, this is the home dash Uh, it's said I slept for just under eight hours and it's got the sleep time there 10 15 to 6 30 um resting heart rate it was 50 beats per minute The score was 82. Um Don't quite understand that little graph there And then it's got your activity recommendations, which I personally don't care about And because it's first thing in the morning, I haven't done the activity that's showing up is next to nothing So that's the the home screen. Uh, what else we got? We've got the menu on the top left where you can jump into your sleep, redness activity and trends We'll get to them soon. Plus you got settings top right where their bluetooth button, which I just pressed Um Bottom left we have this calendar function and all this does is shows What? Well, it shows the calendar obviously, but it shows what days Um, you've achieved good readiness good sleep and good activities And uh, you'll see some days. I've got three dots some days one some days two Um, so that's what that's alluding to personally. I don't really use that screen either Um, and then I can scroll from left to right to three different days Um, and then I've got this plus symbol here Um, where I can go in and add notes Uh, and I thought this would be gonna be a great feature and again for those that have read my first blog review on the ordering, um, and then now the newest one You'll know I'm quite passionate about this tagging correlation pattern tracking feature That I've been wanting for a long time and unfortunately, it's still not there. I'm sure they've brought in this notes Function, but it doesn't really do much unless you want to go back and look at your own Diner and be like, oh, okay. Well on september the 5th. I drank alcohol. That might be why my day Was uh, a little bit. No, my sleep was a little bit off or something. Anyway, as I um scroll back You know, you can see how the data changes. So This was yesterday eight and a half hour sleep You know, I ended up doing Uh, what was it? over 10 k's of walking Five and a half hours of an activity Time and I did actually add a note. You said I was playing around with it So that's why I came up worried or stress. Uh, and then it said what time I went to bed And you can do that for any day. I mean you can scroll All the way back nine and a half hours. That was a good sleep Um, and then I can hit those two hours and take me back to today So that's the main dash. Um, and then now I can click sleep. I can click activity. I can click readiness and um But you haven't seen this screen before so all I did there was click that readiness number at the top Um, and it gives you a bit more overview obviously about your data Sleep. So it's got your sleep the time you went to bed Um activity, that's cool. And then what's that little button down the bottom? All right. So anyway, let's go through this menu. So sleep the sleep menu again, um Shows your breakdown between what are your REM sleep light sleep deep sleep and awake time. So you can see in that graph there deep sleeps on the bottom And then you can see your sleep times sleep efficiencies Total bedtime heart rate all this amazing data. And then of course your sleep score, which is a aura algorithm Or a calculated score. So when you're getting 85 and above you're getting that little crown That's why I didn't get it last night, but I did the night before Okay, and then you can scroll down and you see your sleep contributor. So this is pretty much showing more of the makeup of your sleep. So you know total sleep Efficiency how many times you work up versus How long you're in bed, uh tranquility wake-ups throughout the night uh REM sleep And your percentage deep sleep and your percentage latency how long it took to fall asleep timing which is in relation to your environment's light cycles. Uh, and so I can click any of these and get a bit of data Um, you know about it if you're not too sure what REM sleep is or what how much deep sleep Which you can get and then also down here as you see, uh sleep stages So this shows the breakdown of your sleep throughout, um the night Let's go back here. So I can see uh, I didn't wake up until I actually had a pretty good sleep last night I didn't recall waking up, which is what my worrying saying So you can see a lot of their deep sleeps earlier on and then it goes to REM And then obviously lightest sleep in the morning and you can see your resting heart rate throughout the night plus the average Pretty cool. So I like all this sort of stuff. Um, and it's great if you want to check your sleep readiness score Again, I'm not going to explain this because I've done it in the article And I don't want to take up too much time in this video But yeah, you can see everything here the you can see your readiness Which is actually the blue or green bar and your resting heart rate, which is the white dot you can see your heart rate variability there Uh, respiration rate body temperature deviation. Unfortunately, you can't see your actual Body temperature and then your readiness score and how that was calculated Again, you can click on Any of these points to learn more about it heart rate variability throughout the night Plus your averages and max resting heart rate Cool and then uh, we can go activity and um You can see all your activity and Again, you got all your data in here. So it's really really cool if you love looking into stats and metrics and Learned about your body. You're gonna love all this. Um, all right So now the other cool feature is this trans feature. So I can go in here and I can choose Let's say sleep score And it's going to plot it on a graph I can All right, so I just crashed the uh video recording software then as I turn my phone to landscape mode So you can turn your phone to landscape mode and you obviously see these uh graphs and charts and a lot more user friendly layout I'm not going to do that because I don't want to break this again But anyway, so here I can see my sleep score. I can round it off to daily monthly weekly Uh data points so I can see over december january february this year my sleep Overall suffered a little bit that is summertime here in new zealand plus we got married So, you know my sleep dropped off, but uh come winter time, you know july august september You can see it's it's a lot higher and it was last year as well I see really good in winter time when it's cold and dark. Um, and you can do that for any metric So I can go sleep stages Uh and average that out monthly weekly. That's actually pretty cool. I haven't been in that one before um, you can see your wake up time And average that are over monthly So seven 30 so typically I'm waking up about seven 30 That was pretty late over summer um And you can go through your readiness data so I could see my readiness score, um Over all these months and see when it drops down I mean if you're training and you're you know, you want to look back and how a particular Training program works. Maybe you ran it for three months and your readiness score is just really low Maybe you won't use that training program again. Maybe you'll you'll You know take some some of the volume out or and the intensity out or maybe you'll know you have to Prioritize your sleep during that period or maybe if you're training for an event you can um use this to You know make sure you're you're tapering in time and you know the bodies and its peak performance come game day There's so so much data in here. I mean heart rate variability body temperature for those that have read My article on Body temperature and the importance of tracking it at alexfigus.com. You'll know why I like I really like this so this this here. See there's a bit of a spike I actually got uh, like I got a fever or food poisoning or something then There's a few weeks before our wedding. Uh, so you can see how it's just spiked up there. Um So yeah really cool data here And then again, I can do the same for activity. So all of this is Accessible through the app. Uh, what I'm going to show you next is the um cloud Dash which shows all this data that we've just seen now, but in a lot more data Um, and the trans function is really really cool. One final thing. I'll just mention this app is Where are we 2.3.4 So, um, and that's current as of 24th of october 2018. So if you're watching this, you know, november or Even 2019 chances are the app's been updated. There's probably new features and you know, maybe even the layouts changed So just keep that in mind. You know, right now we're going to jump online and uh, show you the dash Alrighty, so this is the third part of my 2018 oring review and uh, I am coming to you from New Zealand recording this On the 24th of october. So if you haven't read my review at alexfigus.com I highly recommend checking that out because in that review, I go into a lot more data. So part three we look at the oring Or the aura cloud uh dash. So if you are a user of the oring, you have your account which you log into on the app Um, you can use those details. Hit over to cloud.oring.com login and you'll get this screen okay, so this is similar to the data we just saw on the iphone app, but you just get a lot more detail and You know more space obviously on the screen. So, uh, let's look through this. So we've got the sleep score here um 82 activity I haven't done anything today readiness anyone and you can click on each one and you're going to see all that data we saw on the app, but again, there's more of it and um That's cool. That's a new feature as well So you can click on it and then learn all about each point just like you could on the app as well Um, so you can see all this data. You can see your sleep stages. You can see your heart rate variability throughout the night So if there's a particular time, you know, you want to look at what happened at two o'clock came a heart rate The heart hrv was 66 resting heart rate 53 I was in light sleep at that point temperature devery deviation respiration rate So it's all it's all there. Cool. Cool. Cool stuff, right? And then of course I can click back to a day And it will all update I can do that for activity Um, feel the data here. I don't want to go into activity too much and then readiness again You can select any day plus you can see the trends up here All right, and that's just your day-to-day trends and that's just your score So for some reason on the 15th my readiness was really low Uh, really low. Anyway, that bounce back. All right. So, um, okay. Cool. Now, that's all good I'm I don't want to go into too much detail on that. I've actually done a full video on the cloud dash You can check out on my youtube channel. So go have a look at that if you want to learn more about the this dash But one cool feature before we go is the trends feature. So you saw this, uh, in the iphone app, but it was only one data point in, uh, their Cloud dash here, you can overlay data points. All right, plus you can change the time frame So I've got data going way back to june 2016 Let's pull this forward here So I can see all the starting them. All right. Now what I can do is I can change Any metric so, you know, I've got here a bedtime start and then I've got sleep score and so Oh, and I'll smooth this out to be monthly. I could go daily, but it's very messy very noisy. I can go weekly Uh, but for this day instance since we're looking at over two years with the data or get a monthly All right. So what this is showing me? I mean, this is where it's really powerful the data because you can start interpreting things Right. So here I can see like My bedtime start is this purple on the bottom and my sleep score is this orange. So here I can see when my, um sleep bedtime start was nine o'clock nine thirty nine forty five my, um Sleep score is pretty good. And then you see there's actually a bit of an inverse relationship here. So as my, um Bid time start was later. So here we're around. What's that 10 30? That's 11 11 11, uh, you can see my sleep score dropped off and then as my bedtime start came earlier again So we're back to 945 here. My sleep score started improving again. So little things like that. It's pretty fascinating I mean, there's two years worth of data. That's a lot of data points And the trend is pretty obvious, right? Like if you if you could inverse the sleep score I'd say it would it would line up pretty well with those peaks and troughs And then down here, I've got my deep sleep and I think that's the average through the middle there And again, I can change that to anything sleep latency. I can go into activity. I can go total burn I can go HRV score, which was a new feature Way back in whenever that was mid 2017, which is why there's no data here Uh, and again, I can overlay that with anything. All right, so it's it's really really cool I can dial in to a certain period. So, you know, let's look at My wedding sort of period and then honeymoon and then monthly will change it to weekly You can even go to daily and you can see what's going on here with uh Data in a certain range, right? Like this is a two three month range there. Um, what day did I get married? That's a bad question, isn't it 17th? So I wouldn't have worn my Ring on the wedding day. Uh, but you can see, um, what do we got? Bid time in It's quite late. Um, so, you know, you see all sorts of sorts of cool data here, and then I can keep adding charts. So midpoint You know, I can just add more and more charts and this is why it's very very cool So that's the trend thing. Um, and You can also do this, uh For oh, sorry, you can also export the data. So when I was writing review on um, how sleep lack of sleep makes you fat I was curious to see what time I was going to bid and how long I was sleeping for So I actually exported all my sleep data and uh, just had an excel document And you can crush the numbers however you want. So it is very very cool There is another feature. Uh, the aura teams dash. Um I'm not going to show you that because it's got all my clients Details, uh, so I don't really want that coming up, but it's very very cool for that You'll have to hit over to the alexfigures.com, uh article The oring article because I've got some screenshots on there, but that's that's an amazing feature I don't know if that's officially launched yet, but I know I've been fortunate enough to test it out And uh, if you are a sports coach or a personal trainer or a health coach, you're going to love it So anyway, that's the oring cloud. So, um Yeah, again, I hope if you do have any questions Uh, about my review or the ring or any of these features feel free to, um Leave them in the comments below Below if you're on youtube or in the disgust comments if you are at alexfigures.com If you are looking at ordering this ring, um, I have been given a discount code It's simply my name alexfigures.com. I'll spell it out for you here Uh, though if you're watching this Oh Jesus there you go alexfigures.com if you're watching this, um On my website or on youtube, you can probably see my name that discount I don't know exactly what it is. Uh, so just put it in and see what happens. It seems to change So i'm not going to say something in case this video is around for a year or two. Um, but a bit of a heads up I do get a cut from that. Uh, it's a bit of a commission So I mean we both benefit you save and I get a cut if you don't want me getting a cut You don't like that idea then um, don't use it and just pay a little bit more. It's all good Anyway, uh, again, I hope you've enjoyed this video. If you are watching this on youtube, please give me a thumbs up And also check out all my other ordering videos because I have a lot I've got a lot of videos on the first generation ring Um, and I'm going to produce a lot more for the second generation So if you want to see me training with the ring, please let me know if you want to see me I know doing something with the ring or you know, I want to know more about the app or something like that Let me know because I can always get on here and do another video But if you are watching this on youtube and you haven't read the review I highly recommend hitting over to elxfuse.com and reading that review I'll put links in the notes below because it's it's very comprehensive. It's like 50 odd pages Um, so don't leave that freak you out But if you know, it is a premium product. You are talking $2.99 to 50. I guess with a discount code Um, it's a lot of money So you want to make sure you do your research and know a little bit about the ring before committing to it. Um So yeah, enjoy and thanks and I am going to sign off. Bye. Bye