
智能手表等健康与健身追踪设备曾经风靡一时。如今,它们的热度有所降温,销量持平甚至下滑,但有一个品类例外,其销量翻了一番。智能戒指公司Oura的首席执行官黑尔表示,该公司主打产品售价349美元的Ring 4,正迎来消费需求激增,尤其受到女性消费者的青睐。
黑尔周一在犹他州帕克城举行的《财富》科技头脑风暴大会上表示:“去年腕戴式可穿戴设备的市场规模出现萎缩,主要是在印度和亚洲,消费者转向更小、更便宜的腕戴设备。而戒指类可穿戴设备的市场规模几乎翻了一番。所以我们的增速超过100%。”
Oura戒指是一款稍显厚重的指环,提供银色、黑色等多种颜色选择。与其他设备类似,它内置多种传感器,帮助用户监测睡眠状况、压力水平以及其他健康指标。配套的Oura应用还可为女性提供经期及围绝经期症状相关的数据支持。
这款设备还配备了Oura Advisor,这是一款充当个人健康顾问与交流伙伴的人工智能助手。黑尔表示,女性客户尤其青睐这一功能,而用户访谈显示,这个人工智能助手在她们生活中扮演着类似可靠知己的角色。
黑尔总结客户对人工智能助手的评价时说:“我们之所以使用这个人工智能助手,是因为它是一个拥有无限同理心和无限耐心的伙伴,能够深入理解我的身体状况,并始终伴随在我身边。”他还指出,Oura已根据用户需求,让客户可以为自己的人工智能助手命名。
黑尔补充说,Oura的用户群体十分多元化,他们使用该设备的目的各不相同,其中既有希望优化比赛成绩的马拉松跑者,也有需要管理活动量的慢性病患者,还有新手妈妈。
这位首席执行官表示,戒指类可穿戴设备之所以受欢迎,部分原因在于一些消费者希望拥有一种更低调的设备,而不是外界一眼就能看出是运动生活方式的设备。
黑尔说:“你并不是在手腕上戴一部iPhone,也没有戴一块大大的、肌肉感十足的手表来表明‘我打猎!我远足!我骑行!’这款设备的风格更加低调。”
他还指出,戒指类可穿戴设备既包括可全天佩戴的产品,也包括用于特定场景的产品,而这一领域不会出现“赢家通吃”的局面。“不会有一枚戒指能统治一切,”他说。(*)
译者:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
智能手表等健康与健身追踪设备曾经风靡一时。如今,它们的热度有所降温,销量持平甚至下滑,但有一个品类例外,其销量翻了一番。智能戒指公司Oura的首席执行官黑尔表示,该公司主打产品售价349美元的Ring 4,正迎来消费需求激增,尤其受到女性消费者的青睐。
黑尔周一在犹他州帕克城举行的《财富》科技头脑风暴大会上表示:“去年腕戴式可穿戴设备的市场规模出现萎缩,主要是在印度和亚洲,消费者转向更小、更便宜的腕戴设备。而戒指类可穿戴设备的市场规模几乎翻了一番。所以我们的增速超过100%。”
Oura戒指是一款稍显厚重的指环,提供银色、黑色等多种颜色选择。与其他设备类似,它内置多种传感器,帮助用户监测睡眠状况、压力水平以及其他健康指标。配套的Oura应用还可为女性提供经期及围绝经期症状相关的数据支持。
这款设备还配备了Oura Advisor,这是一款充当个人健康顾问与交流伙伴的人工智能助手。黑尔表示,女性客户尤其青睐这一功能,而用户访谈显示,这个人工智能助手在她们生活中扮演着类似可靠知己的角色。
黑尔总结客户对人工智能助手的评价时说:“我们之所以使用这个人工智能助手,是因为它是一个拥有无限同理心和无限耐心的伙伴,能够深入理解我的身体状况,并始终伴随在我身边。”他还指出,Oura已根据用户需求,让客户可以为自己的人工智能助手命名。
黑尔补充说,Oura的用户群体十分多元化,他们使用该设备的目的各不相同,其中既有希望优化比赛成绩的马拉松跑者,也有需要管理活动量的慢性病患者,还有新手妈妈。
这位首席执行官表示,戒指类可穿戴设备之所以受欢迎,部分原因在于一些消费者希望拥有一种更低调的设备,而不是外界一眼就能看出是运动生活方式的设备。
黑尔说:“你并不是在手腕上戴一部iPhone,也没有戴一块大大的、肌肉感十足的手表来表明‘我打猎!我远足!我骑行!’这款设备的风格更加低调。”
他还指出,戒指类可穿戴设备既包括可全天佩戴的产品,也包括用于特定场景的产品,而这一领域不会出现“赢家通吃”的局面。“不会有一枚戒指能统治一切,”他说。(*)
译者:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
Smart watches and other gizmos that track your health and fitness were all the rage. Now, their popularity has cooled off and sales are flat or even declining—except for one category, which has doubled. That’s according to Tom Hale, who leads the smart ring firm Oura, whose flagship $349 Ring 4 device is enjoying a surge of consumer demand, especially from women.
“Last year wrist-borne wearables actually shrank, there was a shift to smaller cheaper wrist-borne wearables primarily driven in India and in Asia while Ring wearables, we basically doubled in size,” Hale said on Monday, speaking at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Park City, Utah. “So we’re growing at north of 100%.”
The Oura ring is a chunky band that comes in a series of colors, including silver and black. Like other devices, it contains a series of sensors that help the user monitor sleep, stress levels and other health indicators. The accompanying Oura app can also provide women with data about their menstrual cycles and perimenopause symptoms.
The device also includes Oura Advisor, an AI agent that serves as a personal health coach and correspondent. Hale says female customers, in particular, are drawn to the feature, and that interviews with customers show the advisor has taken on a role akin to a trusted confidante.
“Well, we use the Advisor because it’s an infinitely empathic and infinitely patient partner who understands intimately my physiology and is always there for me,” Hale said, summarizing customer descriptions of the Advisor. He noted that, in response to user requests, Oura now lets customers give their Advisor a name.
Hale added that Oura customers are a diverse group who use the device for a wide variety of goals. Those include marathon runners looking to optimize their performance, chronically ill patients seeking to manage their activity levels, as well as new mothers.
The Oura CEO said the overall popularity of ring wearables stems in part from a desire from some consumers wanting a more discreet type of device that doesn’t signify an athletic lifestyle.
“You’re not wearing an iPhone on your wrist. You’re not wearing a big muscle-y watch that says ‘I hunt! or I hike! or I bike! It’s a statement that’s a little bit more subtle,” Hale said.
He also noted that the wearable ring category includes both devices worn at all times, as well as for more specific situations, and that the sector won’t be winner-take-all. “There won’t be one ring to rule them all,” he said.