The Power of Sleep Tracking: An In-Depth Look at the Aurora Ring

As I began to explore the features and functionality of the Aurora Ring, I was immediately struck by its comprehensive approach to sleep tracking. The app, which claims to provide users with a detailed breakdown of their sleep patterns, is nothing short of overwhelming at first glance. With its vast array of information and data points, it's easy to feel like you're drowning in a sea of numbers and charts. However, as I delved deeper into the app, I began to appreciate its complexity and the wealth of knowledge it provides.

One of the most impressive features of the Aurora Ring is its ability to track individual stages of sleep. According to the app, there are five distinct stages of sleep: light, transition, deep, slow-wave, and REM. Each stage plays a crucial role in our overall health and well-being, and being able to track them can provide valuable insights into our sleep patterns. I was particularly interested in seeing exactly when these different stages occurred, and the app delivers on this promise. With its calendar view, I'm able to jump back and see when my best sleep happened – a clear indication that I need to do better in my own life.

The Aurora Ring also boasts an activity tracking feature, which allows users to set goals and monitor their progress. This is particularly useful for those looking to improve their physical health through regular exercise. For me, personally, this feature has been eye-opening. With my training frequency having dwindled significantly due to a busy travel schedule, I can see that I need to do better about staying active. The app provides a scorecard of sorts, highlighting areas where I need to focus my efforts and offering valuable tips for improvement.

One aspect of the Aurora Ring that stands out is its approach to motivating users without shame or guilt. Unlike some other apps on the market, which can be overly critical and demotivating, the Aurora Ring takes a more supportive and encouraging tone. This makes it an ideal tool for those who struggle with self-regulation or motivation. The app's focus is on empowering users to make positive changes in their lives, rather than shaming them for their shortcomings.

The Readiness feature is another standout aspect of the Aurora Ring. This section provides a daily scorecard that offers a snapshot of your overall readiness – essentially, how you're feeling throughout the day. By monitoring this score, I'm able to identify areas where I might be struggling and make adjustments accordingly. The app also provides detailed explanations for each score point, offering valuable insights into what's working and what's not.

The Aurora Ring is rounded out by a comprehensive Explore tab that offers users a wealth of additional information on topics such as meditation, breathing techniques, and stress management. This section provides a treasure trove of knowledge on how to improve overall well-being, making it an invaluable resource for anyone looking to optimize their life.

One final aspect worth mentioning is the battery life of the Aurora Ring. Despite its compact size, this device boasts a remarkable seven-day battery life – essentially, you can charge it once and go for days without needing another charge. This feature alone is enough to justify the cost of the device, in my opinion. With its ability to track sleep patterns, provide motivation, and offer valuable insights into overall well-being, the Aurora Ring is an investment worth considering.

In conclusion, the Aurora Ring offers a comprehensive approach to sleep tracking that's unmatched by other devices on the market. Its detailed breakdown of sleep patterns, motivational tone, and wealth of additional information make it an ideal tool for anyone looking to improve their overall health and well-being. Whether you're struggling with sleep deprivation or simply looking to optimize your daily routine, the Aurora Ring is definitely worth exploring further.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthanks to Aura for sponsoring today's video this is your average consumer and today we're checking out something completely new to me at least and that's this guy right here the aura ring gen 3 Horizon this is the first smart ring that I've ever tried and it's honestly pretty wild the amount of tech that they can pack inside of something so small so for those of you who are unfamiliar the aura ring is a smart ring that can track all kinds of health information from your sleep habits which is probably the biggest selling point here to your workouts calories burned your Readiness for the day and even cycle tracking like I said earlier this is the third generation of the Ring which added some cool new features like a blood oxygen sensor so that it can let you know if you're having any breathing disturbances at night now I know a lot of us out there use things like the Apple watch but I don't know me personally I've never been a fan of using the Apple watch for any sleep metrics or anything like that I just kind of use it for text messages and getting notifications knowing what's going on when I don't have my phone on me but this feels very different this feels way more intentional you definitely get a lot more information and we'll talk about that information in just a bit but from what I've experienced so far this brings a lot of the things that it tracks to the Forefront of my mind things that I'm not necessarily looking for on this watch I never have but with this I've got it on for that sole purpose and like I said it brings it to the Forefront of the mind but now that you've got a quick overview of the Ring let's talk about what you get inside of the box if you decide to pick this thing up so first things first if you plan on ordering this I definitely suggest getting their free sizing kit so you can make sure you know the right size for the finger that you plan to put this thing on once you know your size and you get your hands on the actual ring you'll see that it of course comes in a pretty small box inside of this box we're immediately greeted by the ring but underneath that you'll get a charging cable which is a USBC to a cable and when you dig a little bit deeper you'll find the paperwork that it comes with which has your safety and warranty information Nation as well as a quick start guide to let you know exactly how to wear the ring now when you get back to the packaging that the ring is in you'll see that it's sitting on a charging base so you can plug that USB cable that we got our hands on right into here and not the ring itself and I'm not gonna lie when I first opened this thing up I was surprised at how normal the ring felt but when you look inside of the ring you'll notice that it has three little bumps which have the sensors inside of them and to make sure that you've got the sensors always in the right place there's a little indent on the ring which should be facing the inside of your hand so it should make it really easy to make sure that you've got this thing on correctly and always in the right position I kind of expected it to be more on the clunky side considering all of the tech and sensors that are included in it but turns out it feels and looks just like a normal ring to me now I've got mine here in the silver color but there are five total color options also including black stealth gold and rose gold now I wear a lot of silver jewelry so I went with the silver color option here but I kind of regret it I kind of wish I went with the stealth instead because sometimes I switch over to gold and that would have worked with both options whichever I decided to wear so I kind of limited myself with this one so when you pick yours definitely factor in all of the different jewelry and colors that you wear make sure you pick the right one but now let's talk about what this thing is actually trying to pull off like I said earlier this thing is all about sleep tracking and it does an insane job at that so let me pull out the app and show you guys all the details that you can get from here and don't shame me my sleep habits are pretty bad now when you jump into the app there are quite a few things on your home screen that give you an overall picture of how you've been doing you can see that lots of different information depending on what you're looking for but we're gonna really quick jump right into the sleep since for me that's the biggest thing that I've been using this for and they've got a lot of information here so of course you're going to see your total sleep last night I slept for five and a half hours spent six hours in bed and I think that metric is pretty cool because the ring will tell you exactly how long you spent inside of the bed from when you jump in to when you jump out uh sleep efficiency 94 and a resting heart rate of 61 beats per minute overall my sleep score for last night was a 72 which is good not the best uh but I'll take it now as I scroll down you can see my sleep contributors and of course I've got two red flags over here my total sleep and my timing my timing is always horrible but yeah this section right here is where they completely break it down you get hard numbers as to like when you had deep sleep REM sleep all that stuff and it's even Wilder that you can go down and see exactly when those different stages of sleep happened I think at first it may look a little bit overwhelming there's like a lot of information here but I think as you get used to the app you can scan it pretty quickly and get the information you need now I've been using this thing for a couple of weeks now and what's cool is that they provide a calendar that you can jump back and see when you got your best sleep I got some of my best sleep when I first got this thing look at that optimal sleep score 88 now I'm getting like 76's so clearly I need to do better in my life and one thing I think is pretty cool about this sleep tracking is that it can actually detect when you take a nap so if you fall asleep and you know you nap somewhere I've had this thing go off when I nap on the plane and it gives you that information say you took an hour and 43 minute nap that was on the plane don't judge me now like I said sleep a very big deal but they also have activity tracking so you can see all the information based on how active you are based on the goals that you set within the app now me personally I could do better here too I haven't been to the gym in weeks because it's just been a really busy season I've been traveling a lot so my training frequency is just absolutely horrible Jay look at this bar man look at my training frequency but yeah I do need to do better about that and what I like is that unlike Jay the app doesn't shame you it just says pay attention to these different things so you can work on them in the future so if you have some serious goals that you want to achieve you can of course plug them into the app and it'll of course keep track of all of that information now there's an entire tab dedicated to your Readiness that's like your score for your Readiness for the day kind of gives you an idea of what you might expect to feel like throughout your day and it also gives you a ton of scores and information and anything that you might not understand you can jump into and you can read exactly how it impacts you and your day and your body so there's a lot of good info here and I've just never seen anything like it and if there are things that you want to implement into your life like meditation or taking time to breathe or even helping with your sleep there's a whole explore tab that you can go into so that you can work on different aspects or add new things into your daily routine so there's a lot that the app offers and gives you information about and you just wouldn't expect it from something this small now I feel like we could spend forever talking about the app because there's just so much information that you can dive into but one last thing I want to talk about is the battery life so this thing can last up to seven days on a single charge which is just wild to think about unfortunately with smart watches you got to charge those things like every night with this you charge it once a week and you're pretty much good to go now what's even crazier is just how quickly this thing can charge and considering the size of a ring I guess that makes sense I've been in situations where this thing was about to die and I was gonna head out but I wanted to keep track of everything going on in the day so I threw it on the charger for maybe a few minutes and I was covered for a few days so it's just mind-blowing that in this tiny body you get all of that battery life while it's tracking you throughout the entire time so battery life definitely a huge plus very big fan of that especially if it's about to die and you're about to go to bed throw it on a charger for a few minutes and you're gonna have your night covered no problem and if you're in that situation it'll even give you a notification to let you know hey throw it on the charger really quick before it's bedtime really cool stuff I do see what all the hype is about if you're serious about tracking your sleep maybe you want to improve in that aspect this is a solid investment there's a lot more information to be had from this ring than I've seen on any other device so far but that about rap set up for this video guys if you want to learn more I'll of course have it linked Down Below in the description uh put the ordering It's pretty dope I also like the fact that its name sounds like my last name Aura I think that's dope but until next video guys hopefully you enjoyed it if you did be the cool guy girl that gives this video a thumbs up I'm Gonna Catch You guys in the next one till then it's your average consumer peacethanks to Aura for sponsoring today's video this is your average consumer and today we're checking out something completely new to me at least and that's this guy right here the aura ring gen 3 Horizon this is the first smart ring that I've ever tried and it's honestly pretty wild the amount of tech that they can pack inside of something so small so for those of you who are unfamiliar the aura ring is a smart ring that can track all kinds of health information from your sleep habits which is probably the biggest selling point here to your workouts calories burned your Readiness for the day and even cycle tracking like I said earlier this is the third generation of the Ring which added some cool new features like a blood oxygen sensor so that it can let you know if you're having any breathing disturbances at night now I know a lot of us out there use things like the Apple watch but I don't know me personally I've never been a fan of using the Apple watch for any sleep metrics or anything like that I just kind of use it for text messages and getting notifications knowing what's going on when I don't have my phone on me but this feels very different this feels way more intentional you definitely get a lot more information and we'll talk about that information in just a bit but from what I've experienced so far this brings a lot of the things that it tracks to the Forefront of my mind things that I'm not necessarily looking for on this watch I never have but with this I've got it on for that sole purpose and like I said it brings it to the Forefront of the mind but now that you've got a quick overview of the Ring let's talk about what you get inside of the box if you decide to pick this thing up so first things first if you plan on ordering this I definitely suggest getting their free sizing kit so you can make sure you know the right size for the finger that you plan to put this thing on once you know your size and you get your hands on the actual ring you'll see that it of course comes in a pretty small box inside of this box we're immediately greeted by the ring but underneath that you'll get a charging cable which is a USBC to a cable and when you dig a little bit deeper you'll find the paperwork that it comes with which has your safety and warranty information Nation as well as a quick start guide to let you know exactly how to wear the ring now when you get back to the packaging that the ring is in you'll see that it's sitting on a charging base so you can plug that USB cable that we got our hands on right into here and not the ring itself and I'm not gonna lie when I first opened this thing up I was surprised at how normal the ring felt but when you look inside of the ring you'll notice that it has three little bumps which have the sensors inside of them and to make sure that you've got the sensors always in the right place there's a little indent on the ring which should be facing the inside of your hand so it should make it really easy to make sure that you've got this thing on correctly and always in the right position I kind of expected it to be more on the clunky side considering all of the tech and sensors that are included in it but turns out it feels and looks just like a normal ring to me now I've got mine here in the silver color but there are five total color options also including black stealth gold and rose gold now I wear a lot of silver jewelry so I went with the silver color option here but I kind of regret it I kind of wish I went with the stealth instead because sometimes I switch over to gold and that would have worked with both options whichever I decided to wear so I kind of limited myself with this one so when you pick yours definitely factor in all of the different jewelry and colors that you wear make sure you pick the right one but now let's talk about what this thing is actually trying to pull off like I said earlier this thing is all about sleep tracking and it does an insane job at that so let me pull out the app and show you guys all the details that you can get from here and don't shame me my sleep habits are pretty bad now when you jump into the app there are quite a few things on your home screen that give you an overall picture of how you've been doing you can see that lots of different information depending on what you're looking for but we're gonna really quick jump right into the sleep since for me that's the biggest thing that I've been using this for and they've got a lot of information here so of course you're going to see your total sleep last night I slept for five and a half hours spent six hours in bed and I think that metric is pretty cool because the ring will tell you exactly how long you spent inside of the bed from when you jump in to when you jump out uh sleep efficiency 94 and a resting heart rate of 61 beats per minute overall my sleep score for last night was a 72 which is good not the best uh but I'll take it now as I scroll down you can see my sleep contributors and of course I've got two red flags over here my total sleep and my timing my timing is always horrible but yeah this section right here is where they completely break it down you get hard numbers as to like when you had deep sleep REM sleep all that stuff and it's even Wilder that you can go down and see exactly when those different stages of sleep happened I think at first it may look a little bit overwhelming there's like a lot of information here but I think as you get used to the app you can scan it pretty quickly and get the information you need now I've been using this thing for a couple of weeks now and what's cool is that they provide a calendar that you can jump back and see when you got your best sleep I got some of my best sleep when I first got this thing look at that optimal sleep score 88 now I'm getting like 76's so clearly I need to do better in my life and one thing I think is pretty cool about this sleep tracking is that it can actually detect when you take a nap so if you fall asleep and you know you nap somewhere I've had this thing go off when I nap on the plane and it gives you that information say you took an hour and 43 minute nap that was on the plane don't judge me now like I said sleep a very big deal but they also have activity tracking so you can see all the information based on how active you are based on the goals that you set within the app now me personally I could do better here too I haven't been to the gym in weeks because it's just been a really busy season I've been traveling a lot so my training frequency is just absolutely horrible Jay look at this bar man look at my training frequency but yeah I do need to do better about that and what I like is that unlike Jay the app doesn't shame you it just says pay attention to these different things so you can work on them in the future so if you have some serious goals that you want to achieve you can of course plug them into the app and it'll of course keep track of all of that information now there's an entire tab dedicated to your Readiness that's like your score for your Readiness for the day kind of gives you an idea of what you might expect to feel like throughout your day and it also gives you a ton of scores and information and anything that you might not understand you can jump into and you can read exactly how it impacts you and your day and your body so there's a lot of good info here and I've just never seen anything like it and if there are things that you want to implement into your life like meditation or taking time to breathe or even helping with your sleep there's a whole explore tab that you can go into so that you can work on different aspects or add new things into your daily routine so there's a lot that the app offers and gives you information about and you just wouldn't expect it from something this small now I feel like we could spend forever talking about the app because there's just so much information that you can dive into but one last thing I want to talk about is the battery life so this thing can last up to seven days on a single charge which is just wild to think about unfortunately with smart watches you got to charge those things like every night with this you charge it once a week and you're pretty much good to go now what's even crazier is just how quickly this thing can charge and considering the size of a ring I guess that makes sense I've been in situations where this thing was about to die and I was gonna head out but I wanted to keep track of everything going on in the day so I threw it on the charger for maybe a few minutes and I was covered for a few days so it's just mind-blowing that in this tiny body you get all of that battery life while it's tracking you throughout the entire time so battery life definitely a huge plus very big fan of that especially if it's about to die and you're about to go to bed throw it on a charger for a few minutes and you're gonna have your night covered no problem and if you're in that situation it'll even give you a notification to let you know hey throw it on the charger really quick before it's bedtime really cool stuff I do see what all the hype is about if you're serious about tracking your sleep maybe you want to improve in that aspect this is a solid investment there's a lot more information to be had from this ring than I've seen on any other device so far but that about rap set up for this video guys if you want to learn more I'll of course have it linked Down Below in the description uh put the ordering It's pretty dope I also like the fact that its name sounds like my last name Aura I think that's dope but until next video guys hopefully you enjoyed it if you did be the cool guy girl that gives this video a thumbs up I'm Gonna Catch You guys in the next one till then it's your average consumer peacethanks to Aura for sponsoring today's video this is your average consumer and today we're checking out something completely new to me at least and that's this guy right here the aura ring gen 3 Horizon this is the first smart ring that I've ever tried and it's honestly pretty wild the amount of tech that they can pack inside of something so small so for those of you who are unfamiliar the aura ring is a smart ring that can track all kinds of health information from your sleep habits which is probably the biggest selling point here to your workouts calories burned your Readiness for the day and even cycle tracking like I said earlier this is the third generation of the Ring which added some cool new features like a blood oxygen sensor so that it can let you know if you're having any breathing disturbances at night now I know a lot of us out there use things like the Apple watch but I don't know me personally I've never been a fan of using the Apple watch for any sleep metrics or anything like that I just kind of use it for text messages and getting notifications knowing what's going on when I don't have my phone on me but this feels very different this feels way more intentional you definitely get a lot more information and we'll talk about that information in just a bit but from what I've experienced so far this brings a lot of the things that it tracks to the Forefront of my mind things that I'm not necessarily looking for on this watch I never have but with this I've got it on for that sole purpose and like I said it brings it to the Forefront of the mind but now that you've got a quick overview of the Ring let's talk about what you get inside of the box if you decide to pick this thing up so first things first if you plan on ordering this I definitely suggest getting their free sizing kit so you can make sure you know the right size for the finger that you plan to put this thing on once you know your size and you get your hands on the actual ring you'll see that it of course comes in a pretty small box inside of this box we're immediately greeted by the ring but underneath that you'll get a charging cable which is a USBC to a cable and when you dig a little bit deeper you'll find the paperwork that it comes with which has your safety and warranty information Nation as well as a quick start guide to let you know exactly how to wear the ring now when you get back to the packaging that the ring is in you'll see that it's sitting on a charging base so you can plug that USB cable that we got our hands on right into here and not the ring itself and I'm not gonna lie when I first opened this thing up I was surprised at how normal the ring felt but when you look inside of the ring you'll notice that it has three little bumps which have the sensors inside of them and to make sure that you've got the sensors always in the right place there's a little indent on the ring which should be facing the inside of your hand so it should make it really easy to make sure that you've got this thing on correctly and always in the right position I kind of expected it to be more on the clunky side considering all of the tech and sensors that are included in it but turns out it feels and looks just like a normal ring to me now I've got mine here in the silver color but there are five total color options also including black stealth gold and rose gold now I wear a lot of silver jewelry so I went with the silver color option here but I kind of regret it I kind of wish I went with the stealth instead because sometimes I switch over to gold and that would have worked with both options whichever I decided to wear so I kind of limited myself with this one so when you pick yours definitely factor in all of the different jewelry and colors that you wear make sure you pick the right one but now let's talk about what this thing is actually trying to pull off like I said earlier this thing is all about sleep tracking and it does an insane job at that so let me pull out the app and show you guys all the details that you can get from here and don't shame me my sleep habits are pretty bad now when you jump into the app there are quite a few things on your home screen that give you an overall picture of how you've been doing you can see that lots of different information depending on what you're looking for but we're gonna really quick jump right into the sleep since for me that's the biggest thing that I've been using this for and they've got a lot of information here so of course you're going to see your total sleep last night I slept for five and a half hours spent six hours in bed and I think that metric is pretty cool because the ring will tell you exactly how long you spent inside of the bed from when you jump in to when you jump out uh sleep efficiency 94 and a resting heart rate of 61 beats per minute overall my sleep score for last night was a 72 which is good not the best uh but I'll take it now as I scroll down you can see my sleep contributors and of course I've got two red flags over here my total sleep and my timing my timing is always horrible but yeah this section right here is where they completely break it down you get hard numbers as to like when you had deep sleep REM sleep all that stuff and it's even Wilder that you can go down and see exactly when those different stages of sleep happened I think at first it may look a little bit overwhelming there's like a lot of information here but I think as you get used to the app you can scan it pretty quickly and get the information you need now I've been using this thing for a couple of weeks now and what's cool is that they provide a calendar that you can jump back and see when you got your best sleep I got some of my best sleep when I first got this thing look at that optimal sleep score 88 now I'm getting like 76's so clearly I need to do better in my life and one thing I think is pretty cool about this sleep tracking is that it can actually detect when you take a nap so if you fall asleep and you know you nap somewhere I've had this thing go off when I nap on the plane and it gives you that information say you took an hour and 43 minute nap that was on the plane don't judge me now like I said sleep a very big deal but they also have activity tracking so you can see all the information based on how active you are based on the goals that you set within the app now me personally I could do better here too I haven't been to the gym in weeks because it's just been a really busy season I've been traveling a lot so my training frequency is just absolutely horrible Jay look at this bar man look at my training frequency but yeah I do need to do better about that and what I like is that unlike Jay the app doesn't shame you it just says pay attention to these different things so you can work on them in the future so if you have some serious goals that you want to achieve you can of course plug them into the app and it'll of course keep track of all of that information now there's an entire tab dedicated to your Readiness that's like your score for your Readiness for the day kind of gives you an idea of what you might expect to feel like throughout your day and it also gives you a ton of scores and information and anything that you might not understand you can jump into and you can read exactly how it impacts you and your day and your body so there's a lot of good info here and I've just never seen anything like it and if there are things that you want to implement into your life like meditation or taking time to breathe or even helping with your sleep there's a whole explore tab that you can go into so that you can work on different aspects or add new things into your daily routine so there's a lot that the app offers and gives you information about and you just wouldn't expect it from something this small now I feel like we could spend forever talking about the app because there's just so much information that you can dive into but one last thing I want to talk about is the battery life so this thing can last up to seven days on a single charge which is just wild to think about unfortunately with smart watches you got to charge those things like every night with this you charge it once a week and you're pretty much good to go now what's even crazier is just how quickly this thing can charge and considering the size of a ring I guess that makes sense I've been in situations where this thing was about to die and I was gonna head out but I wanted to keep track of everything going on in the day so I threw it on the charger for maybe a few minutes and I was covered for a few days so it's just mind-blowing that in this tiny body you get all of that battery life while it's tracking you throughout the entire time so battery life definitely a huge plus very big fan of that especially if it's about to die and you're about to go to bed throw it on a charger for a few minutes and you're gonna have your night covered no problem and if you're in that situation it'll even give you a notification to let you know hey throw it on the charger really quick before it's bedtime really cool stuff I do see what all the hype is about if you're serious about tracking your sleep maybe you want to improve in that aspect this is a solid investment there's a lot more information to be had from this ring than I've seen on any other device so far but that about rap set up for this video guys if you want to learn more I'll of course have it linked Down Below in the description uh put the ordering It's pretty dope I also like the fact that its name sounds like my last name Aura I think that's dope but until next video guys hopefully you enjoyed it if you did be the cool guy girl that gives this video a thumbs up I'm Gonna Catch You guys in the next one till then it's your average consumer peace\n"