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Oura may be expanding its portfolio of products soon.
The health company is secretly working on a pair of tech-packed eyewear, a recently discovered patent suggests. Oura's glasses would be compatible with its existing wearables, like the latest Oura Ring 4, as well as your smartwatches from third-party brands, like the Apple Watch Series 11.
Not familiar with smart glasses? Think of them as AI-powered eyewear that blends style with functionality. Models from rival firms, like Meta, let you capture photos and videos completely hands-free, listen to music, take phone calls, and access information on the go with the hands-free AI assistant.
What could set Oura's new wearables apart is that its patent filings appear to show a few health feature similarities to Oura's latest smart ring.
Here's everything you can expect from this recent discovery, and how it could compare to existing smart glasses and headsets from other brands.
Upgrade your fitness tracking with the Oura Ring 4
The Oura Ring 4 blends premium style with advanced health tracking. Its sleek metal finish feels durable and modern, making it easy to wear day and night. It monitors sleep stages, heart rate, activity, and readiness with impressive accuracy, while offering up to a week of battery life. It's an ideal choice if you want detailed insights without the bulky tech on your wrist.
You can select from both the metallic shades and ceramic designs. The metallics start at £349, but could go as high as £499 for colours like gold. It's also available in a wider range of sizes — now extending from size 4 to size 15. Not sure about your size? Oura will send you a complimentary sizing kit
Oura Ring 4
$349
According to the eagle-eyed team at Gadgets and Wearables, the patent suggests that these new glasses could have a built-in heads-up dsiplay — a special bit of tech that could showcase your heart rate, temperature, and movement across the glasses lens.
You may also have a camera designed into the frames, which could automatically record your surroundings in the event of an abnormally high heart rate readings. This could prove to be a great feature if your location needs to shared with emergency services in the event of needing medical attention.
The filings also indicate gesture control, as seen in Apple's new updated Vision Pro and Samsung's answer to Meta Quest with its new Galaxy XR headset. This feature allows you to initiate different commands with hand, wrist, or head movements to take pictures or record videos.
The Oura Ring 4 can track your average heart rate and heart rate zones across more than 40 different physical activities | OURA PRESS OFFICE Oura's move to expand into the smart glass market may be a smart choice, as Meta has seen significant success with its releases of the Meta Ray-Ban glasses and its Meta Oakley HSTN glasses.
Meta's glasses offer built-in voice activation, handles real-time translations, object recognition, and contextual assistance — essentially giving you a lightweight wearable AI assistant.
Upgrade to the AI smart glasses by Meta
These smart specs handles hands-free calls, first-person video and photo capture, and an AI assistant to your eyewear with this clever collaboration between sunglasses gurus Ray-Ban and Facebook parent company, Meta.
You can even purchase them in a sunglass version — available in a total of four different shades.
Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer (Gen 1)
$299
Meta AI glasses made their initial appearance in 2021, but it wasn't until the release of Meta Ray-Ban glasses in 2024 that they began flying off the shelves.
The tech firm has partnered with French-Italian brand EssilorLuxottica since 2019 to build two generations of Ray-Ban-branded smart glasses. According to Mr Zuckerberg, sales of the latest iteration of these sunnies were going "very well", with demand much stronger than expected.
"We thought that Ray-Ban Meta was probably going to sell three or five times more than the first version did. And we just dramatically underestimated it," said Mark Zuckerberg, co-creator of Facebook.
These particular specs let you take photographs and video from a first-person perspective with a hands-free voice command, making them a hit with social media content creators and parents.
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You can enjoy HD photos and videos with a 12 MP ultra-wide camera, paired with two open-ear speakers and a five-mic array for clear sound and calls.
With Bluetooth connectivity and 32 GB of storage, you can capture over 500 photos or 100+ 30-second videos on the go.
The battery lasts up to 4 hours per charge and up to 36 hours total when paired with the fully charged case, which is ideal if you're travelling and want to capture memories in a new destination.
Meta AI glasses made their initial appearance in 2021, but it wasn't until the release of Meta Ray-Ban glasses in 2024 that they began flying off the shelves.
| META PRESS OFFICEIf you wear prescription glasses but still want to enjoy the features of Meta's AI-powered glasses, you're in luck.
The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are prescription lens-compatible.
However, you'll need to order these directly on the Ray-Ban website, or you can visit a participating retail store.
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