Oura adds AI-powered glucose tracking and meal logging

Meals is yet different diagnostic that started retired successful the Oura Labs beta. | Image: Oura

Oura is doubling down connected metabolic wellness with 2 caller AI-powered features: glucose tracking and repast logging. The erstwhile comes a fewer months aft announcing a strategical concern with Dexcom, which released its over-the-counter Stelo continuous glucose show (CGM) past year. Meanwhile, repast logging is the 3rd experimental diagnostic to travel retired of the company’s Oura Labs beta program.

The Glucose diagnostic requires Oura users to bargain a Dexcom Stelo CGM, which costs $99 and tin present beryllium bought straight from Oura’s site. Once paired, folks with some an Oura Ring and Stelo volition beryllium capable to presumption their glucose information wrong the Oura app alongside different metrics similar stress, movement, and tags. They’ll besides get AI summaries astir their regular glucose trends. There’s besides a caller metric called “time supra range,” which volition archer users however agelong their glucose levels enactment supra the perfect 70-140 mg/dL target.

Given that the Glucose diagnostic requires a Dexcom Stelo (and therefore, regulatory clearance), truthful far, Oura says the diagnostic volition lone beryllium launching successful the US for present — though it is FSA / HSA eligible.

Meanwhile, the Meals diagnostic much straight utilizes the Oura Advisor chatbot, which uses generative AI to analyse a user’s semipermanent information and trends, arsenic good arsenic springiness guidance connected wide wellness questions. This peculiar diagnostic works by taking pictures of your meals. Oura Advisor past analyzes what you’re eating and gives a breakdown of its estimated macronutrients and nutritional value. When prompted, it tin besides springiness feedback connected however to physique much satiating meals and supply what Oura describes arsenic “non-judgmental insights” based connected your wide wellness objectives. People who usage some the Meals and Glucose features volition besides get entree to different metric called “meal level clip supra range” that analyzes however agelong glucose levels enactment elevated aft eating.

Oura’s pivot to metabolic wellness isn’t retired of the blue. While it’s not yet a large absorption of smartwatch wellness features, metabolic wellness is intelligibly the adjacent frontier for astute rings. (Probably due to the fact that they thin to beryllium fashionable with athletes and wellness-minded wellness enthusiasts.) Rival astute ring–maker Ultrahuman, for example, allows users to bargain a CGM and spot however the remainder of their wellness tracking information relates to their glucose. With its Galaxy Ring, Samsung besides introduced an experimental AGEs Index metric, which claims to archer users however they’re metabolically aging. Oura itself has besides been pursuing glucose tracking for immoderate clip now. A fewer months earlier its Dexcom partnership, the institution besides acquired Veri, a CGM startup that fto users way some glucose and meals.