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OASIS 1 Ring - Whisper to write and touch to edit

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OASIS Ring combines our patented ring trackpad with private voice capture, integrated with Wispr Flow. After shipping the most advanced trackpad ever built into a ring this year, we’re launching our next step: an interface on your finger that lets you whisper privately, dictate with Wispr, and edit text with our trackpad without ever touching a keyboard.

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Hey Product Hunt✌🏻

We've spent half a decade developing an amazing trackpad ring that allows you to inertial scrolling in two directions & today we're adding voice!

Making this trackpad work took many years. We tried capacitive touch first, but we found the surface area is too small for responsive vertical and horizontal scrolling. We then moved to optical touch but false positive detection was not great. We ended up combining both capacitive and optical to get the best of both worlds, which we patented along with other novel context switching features we'll announce later (stay tuned!).
We also intentionally decided to focus on interactions and leave health features out to be able to provide the best interaction experience possible. The result of these choices is what sets it apart. It is not a health tracker, nor is it voice-only. It enables both voice and very expressive touch interactions that are unique to OASIS at the moment.

OASIS can eventually be used with many platforms like iOS, MacOS, and VisionOS. But today we're focused on launching our MacOS experience integrated with Wispr Flow. We met the Wispr guys in the middle of last year and it was clear they had figure out voice in a way nobody else had. Now that more people are using the modality, our device can help them keep using this modality in situations where they otherwise couldn't like quiet offices, coffee shops, and libraries.

Stay tuned for our take on mobile and cross-platform context switching in the future.

All the best,

Ricky

When someone whispers into the ring, what’s the full privacy boundary end-to-end (audio capture, transmission, storage, and transcription)—and what choices did you make to keep it usable in shared spaces without creating new privacy risks?
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 We create a virtual microphone on your computer and hand over the audio to Wispr Flow for transcription! We don't use Cloud on our end.

This feels like a very “future interface” product :)

I like that you didn’t try to make another health ring. focusing fully on interaction makes the product much more interesting to me, because voice alone still has limits and touch alone would probably not be enough either.

The Wispr Flow integration also makes a lot of sense. I use voice more and more for writing/thinking, but the awkward part is exactly public or quiet spaces where speaking normally feels weird. whispering + finger-level editing could solve a real friction there.

The trackpad part is probably what makes this feel different from “just voice input in a ring.” being able to scroll, edit, and control text without touching the keyboard is a strong direction. Curious how hard it is to learn in practice. does it feel natural after a few minutes, or is there a real learning curve before the ring becomes faster than keyboard/mouse?

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 Exactly you got it! Interactions feel pretty smooth already, we paid a lot of attention to responsiveness. But we're always tightening up the interactions so they can be as seamless as possible and feel good when you interact!

does the 2D trackpad stay usable if the ring rotates slightly during the day?

Leaving out health tracking on purpose is the right call, most rings try to do everything and end up mediocre at all of it. The whisper mode is what got me though, going from whisper volume to clean transcription is genuinely hard since background noise and breath sounds usually wreck it. Is the mic picking up any bone conduction from the finger too, or purely air, and does it hold up in a noisy cafe vs a quiet room?

Hey Ricky. Does the ring work seamlessly across iOS, macOS, and VisionOS?

The "quiet spaces" use case is what sets this apart. Voice already works well when you're alone - the gap is all the moments you can't really speak out loud.
Curious how this holds up after a couple of weeks though. Does it actually start replacing the keyboard, or do people still fall back to old habits?
Congrats on the launch!