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I am an AR/VR sceptic, but the prospect of a smooth, immersive UI would go a long way to changing my mind. So it would make sense for an Apple smart ring to be the answer here. In the promo videos, we see people just flicking their fingers to control a whole array of features.

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I’ve been wondering since the announcement about how Apple Vision Pro would work so precisely without controllers. This would make VR/AR much less cumbersome and intrusive which is by far the main barrier to its uptake, excluding cost. But a ring, or multiple rings, could replace them and make your own fingers the controllers. Most VR/AR systems require two handheld controllers to work. This is huge for potential UI developments in AR/VR systems and I think ties in very nicely with Vision Pro. It could locate itself.Īnd if it can locate itself, it can locate you…or, more precisely, your finger. This means an Apple Ring would know where in space and time it is. In both designs, an Apple Ring would have sensing capabilities, meaning they could independently detect the distance between other smart objects like an Apple Watch or Apple Pen. What is truly exciting about these patents is the possibilities they open up. You could invent the revolutionary new ‘smart banana’ and Apple would file a patent for their own version called ‘Banana Pro’ in mere picoseconds.īack in 2022, Apple showed their workings on two different types of smart ring a one-ring configuration and a two-ring configuration. It’s no surprise that Apple has patented its own smart ring concept. Although there is still room for improvement in that space.īut still, these two examples are lacking. AND they look slightly nicer than the McLEAR. So, pretty ‘smart’, especially for something more than half the size of an Apple Watch. From monitoring exercise and relaxation time to sleep quality, it is much like an advanced Fitbit for your finger. Firmly in the health tech category, Oura’s Smart Ring is all about tracking your health and fitness in any way it can. There are no frills to a McLEAR, and that extends to the pretty drab design, but it performs a function well and for that I commend it. Sure, you can’t auto-respond to a text message, but not having to pull your phone or card out to pay for something sounds pretty seamless. And you know what? That’s actually quite useful. You can hold funds within it, transfer money to other rings and of course pay with it. The McLEAR ring acts as a sort of wearable bank account. It is slightly more complex than it seems though. You can already get a contactless payment chip embedded into your hand. In the realm of modern-day tech, contactless payment is about as impressive or inspiring as the new iPhone 15 will be (shots fired). It feels like a bit of a stretch to call the McLEAR Ring a ‘smart’ ring. Because where one goes, the other must follow like a weirdly overcompetitive older brother.Īpple and Samsung are battling it out on many different fronts at the moment, whether that’s AI, VR, phones, or watches, and it looks like you can now add smart rings to that list.īut before we take a look at each one in turn, let’s hit rewind for a second and see exactly how we got here the dawn of the smart ring age (probably).

Earlier in the year, Apple also filed patents for its own smart ring, confirming rumours of an Apple Ring that have swirled for years. All of this smart ring stuff stemmed from the recent news surrounding the Samsung Smart Ring.Īfter filing a patent last week for a whole bunch of different ring-themed names, it seems Samsung will be the first big company to enter this particular sector of the wearable tech market.Īnd they’re not the only ones. Or what a smart ring could feasibly do.īut, as you will see, I have been somewhat enlightened. Before writing this article, I wasn’t really sure what the point of them was.

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