Oura's AI health coach is live for everyone - here's what it can do for you

Starting Monday, Oura app subscribers will have a personal health assistant available for questions and conversations. Oura's personal health chatbot, Oura Advisor, which was previously available only to Oura Labs users, is getting a permanent spot in the Oura app. The Advisor uses the biometric data Oura collects and tracks through the smart ring to provide daily and weekly guidance and answer health queries.

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The AI-powered health coach arrives in the Oura app with several feature improvements to encourage frequent and widespread use. These include improved memory from the Advisor, which helps the AI remember previous conversations and make further connections about trends and user behavior. Speaking of trends, the Advisor can now detect and communicate trends through its new access to long-term health data, and it will now display these trends with data visualizations like graphs and charts. The Advisor's tone can now adjust depending on user feedback and responses. Lastly, the Oura Advisor can generate topics while the user isn't interacting with the AI.

Oura Advisor was previously available in beta through Oura Labs, an experimental tab where users can test and provide feedback on in-development features. During beta testing, Oura found that 60% of Oura Advisor users interacted with the assistant multiple times a week, and 60% reported that the AI helped them understand their metrics. Oura Advisor is the second Oura Labs feature that earned a permanent spot on the app, with the first being Symptom Radar, a tool that helps track and detect strain in the body and warn users of possible illness.

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I've used the experimental Oura Advisor through Oura Labs a couple of times, and it's been helpful to report how I'm feeling about my activity levels, sleep, or nutrition instead of solely relying on the health data metrics. Just this morning, I told it about my past few days of healthy eating and activity habits and my wariness about breaking that streak to go out to eat with friends tonight. It told me that balancing my social life and well-being is important and that I should make choices while dining out that align with my well-being goals. It also said, "Well-being includes nourishment and enjoyment, so savor the evening without stress." Pretty wise, huh?

Oura Advisor is now available globally in the app in the English language.

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