Oura is now going full speed ahead. One of the best smart ring brands on the market, Oura just released Oura Ring 4 this past October, not only upgrading the Oura app for all members, but also launching an entirely new feature.

As of December 5, 2024, Oura will be launching Symptom Radar. This is the first beta testing feature to be permanently included in the Oura app, fresh out of Oura Labs, which was introduced with the latest major upgrade of the Oura app, allowing members to test “experimental” features and provide feedback

and “experimental” features that members can test and provide feedback on.

And one feature seems to have materialized. Want to know more? Here's what to expect from Symptom Radar and what it means for Oura Ring 3 and 4 members.

Symptom Radar will examine your biometric data each morning and assess early signs of respiratory strain. With a more accurate and detailed level of user experience, this feature should be able to detect early signs of tension, including common cold and flu-like symptoms.

Best of all, Oura Labs is putting user experience at the forefront as it incorporates feedback from its members into new features. Every morning, data is synced through the Oura app, and Symptom Radar analyzes it in three different ways, called “severity levels.”

Based on feedback, a historical graph has been added to this feature; Oura also provides the biometrics that contributed to the Symptom Radar results, so members can track which markers have changed, why, and how these markers deviate from baseline values deviations from the reference values. [If one or more deviations are detected, the member is alerted using one of three severity levels. If one or more deviations are detected, the member is alerted using one of three severity levels.

If the Oura ring detects something, the app will prompt you to turn on rest mode and prioritize recovery. Rest mode can be toggled from the menu in the upper left corner and pauses activity goals, scores, and contributors, allowing you to focus on rest instead. In rest mode, readiness scores highlight recovery-based indicators.

According to Oura, fever and respiratory disease monitoring will begin in 2020 with the TemPredict initiative, which Oura “finds signs of pre-fever symptoms in 76% of people by flagging when individuals deviate from their normal temperature patterns and determined that.

Next, an algorithm was developed to alert Oura ring wearers when these symptoms appeared, which became the basis for the Health Risk Management (HRM) platform, Symptom Radar. Over time, this feature has drawn increased data and tagging to increase accuracy throughout its development before eventually rolling out the Symptom Radar feature.

Oura is one of the most accurate brands of smart rings you can invest in, boasting an astounding 99% temperature accuracy compared to lab standards. In fact, according to Oura, the Symptom Radar can detect a change in skin temperature of only +0.5 degrees Celsius (+1 degree Fahrenheit).

Don't worry, you don't have to upgrade to Oura Ring 4 to take advantage of the latest features; they will be available to all Gen 3 Ring and Oura Ring 4 members by December 11, 2024.