While Samsung's Galaxy Ring smart ring focuses on tracking physical activity, measuring health metrics, and monitoring user sleep, Apple's upcoming product is expected to focus more on gesture recognition, at least according to information revealed in the company's patent filing.
Specifically, the Smart Ring, as listed in Apple's filings, can detect skin contact, recognize finger movements, and identify other body movements of the wearer when making gestures.
User-generated renders of Apple's smart ring.
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Users can wear one or more rings on different fingers, and the device will "understand" the relationship between the fingers—for example, which finger has a ring on it, which doesn't, which is the thumb, which finger is on the other hand, etc. From there, the ring can execute commands based on different gestures, from finger-tapping to swiping and sliding movements.
With such capabilities, according to GizChina , Apple's smart ring will know when the user is playing rock-paper-scissors – a fairly popular game worldwide that uses fingers to mimic the shapes of the three tools.
Additionally, the illustration of the smart ring's functionality also shows the ability to use a finger to "draw" movements on the other palm while wearing an Apple Watch, opening up the possibility of controlling the smartwatch with the ring.
As a (potentially launched) Apple product, the Smart Ring is expected to be compatible with many other devices in the Apple ecosystem. Therefore, it's possible this will be a complementary wearable device for the Vision Pro, a head-worn smart glasses also controlled via finger gestures.
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