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Oura announced the release of the new Oura Ring 4 on October 3, the latest version of the Oura smart ring. It boasts some improved features and some new ones—including more accurate sensing, a slimmer design, recessed sensors (no more grooves on your finger!), and a re-tooled app. The Oura Ring 4 is available starting at $349 (up to $499 for specific colors) and will start shipping on October 15.

The Oura uses sensors on the inside of the ring to track more than 30 health and wellness metrics, including the heavy hitters like heart rate and heart variability, and is perhaps best-known for its sleep tracking (check out our review on how the Oura Gen3’s sleep recommendations gave us more energy for workouts.)

The Oura Ring 4 has more than double the number of sensors than the Gen3 (now 18, up from 8), and the newest version includes something called “Smart Sensing,” which showed some impressive accuracy improvements over the Gen3 in external testing, including 7 percent fewer gaps in the daytime heart rate graph and 31 percent fewer gaps in the nighttime heart rate graph. A gap in the graph is when there’s a segment of time that’s missing heart rate data—fewer gaps means more continuous monitoring, resulting in better, more consistent data.

“With Smart Sensing, Oura Ring 4 accounts for ring rotation that naturally occurs with daily activities, as well as differences in finger anatomy, shape, BMI, and skin tone,” said Holly Shelton, chief product officer at Oura, in a press release.