Could garmin buy oura already!

This would be awesome.  I am a watch guy and own a handful of older mechanical watches but also value my data.  I find it hard to take off the Garmin even though I want to wear my other watches.  If they had a ring option for basic data during the day like HR and steps I'd buy it in a heartbeat for the data while I wear my nice watches.   

Vivosmart 4 might be a good solution, it's a much smaller band that will measure your HR, sleep, and steps while you aren't wearing your Fenix.

First the vivosmart 4 is awful for sleep tracking. It's ridiculous that Garmin hasn't updated the vivosmart line in over 2 years. Every other company has innovated "bands" or rings & the best Garmin solution for sleep is a big Fenix or Marq. I sometimes wonder how people keep certain job. Garmin wake up you're getting left behind 

patk said:

I have an oura ring and if the two could have a relationship together I would sleep with oura only.

I've had a 6X and Oura ring for 15 months. Oura is great at sleep tracking, but is a one trick pony. Garmin does almost as well for sleep tracking, and so much more.

Oura has very poor activity targets for fit people. The targets are low, based only on calories or walking distance, and have no concept of training load. Rest day requirements are excessive.

I can't think of any motivation for Garmin to buy Oura. IMHO the 6X is fine to wear 24x7. I felt the same about my 5X+, 3HR, chunky steel Citizen and Rolex Submariner before it.

When my Oura ring quits I will not replace it. Body battery and stress are perfectly adequate substitutes for HRV and probably easier to interpret and action. 

I think that part of this would be so we don't always have to wear a huge fitness watch to track simple metrics.  I love my Garmin and won't ever trade away for all my fitness tracking needs but would like something smaller like a ring or a discreet band.  This way I don't have to wear what appears to be a watch on both wrists.  

Unfortunately not yet.   Just missing metrics during the day while wearing my mechanical watches.