Takeaways

• Oura Health Oy is acquiring Doublepoint Technologies Oy, a gesture-recognition startup that specializes in technology allowing users to control wearable devices with small hand movements.
• The purchase will guide future versions of Oura’s smart rings, where hand gestures could play a central role to the experience, along with possibly voice control, according to Chief Executive Officer Tom Hale.
• Doublepoint’s founders and majority of the team will join Oura and remain based in Helsinki, with Hale saying the acquisition has the potential for transformation with its technology.

Oura Health Oy is buying a gesture-recognition startup, setting up the company to eventually add such controls to its popular line of smart rings.

Oura said it is acquiring Helsinki-based Doublepoint Technologies Oy, which specializes in technology that allows users to control wearable devices with small hand movements using a combination of artificial intelligence and biometric data. The purchase will guide future versions of Oura’s smart rings, where hand gestures could play a central role to the experience, along with possibly voice control, Chief Executive Officer Tom Hale said in an interview. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“This is about a core capability that we can imagine as AI and different kinds of modalities and user interaction, as gestures become more and more important,” Hale said. But, he cautioned, “it’s not like something’s happening tomorrow or in the near term.”

The acquisition follows a blockbuster year for the smart ring category, and for Oura in particular. The Finnish startup, which introduced its smart ring in 2015, was valued at about $11 billion last fall following its latest funding round. The broader segment saw a nearly 51% jump in shipments in 2025, according to market researcher IDC, with Oura as the category leader. Hale said in September that the company was targeting more than $1.5 billion in sales for 2026.

Although some companies like Apple Inc. already use gesture controls, like the index finger to thumb pinch on the Apple Watch and Vision Pro, Hale wouldn’t specify exactly how his gestures would be implemented. “It’s not just enough to have gestures,” he said. “Those gestures have to do something meaningful.” Hale described a Doublepoint demo in which a user could use their fingers to create a trackpad of sorts.

“Some of the demos we saw were super impressive,” he said, referring to a demonstration in which the user skipped through songs using gestures. “I was like, ‘Oh my God. This is how it should work.’ And it’s not like I have to contort myself and stand on one leg,” making the point that the hand motions were easy to master.

Hale also said he sees potential in voice recognition technology, a feature already offered on some other kinds of wearables such as smart glasses.

This marks Oura’s fourth acquisition. In May 2023, the company bought Proxy, bringing on a team building biometric identity and payments technology, along with a portfolio of smart ring patents. It also purchased Sparta Science in October 2024, which helps Oura provide organizations with enterprise-grade insights from biometric data. That same year, the company announced it was buying Veri to gain expertise in metabolic health.

Doublepoint’s four founders, along with the majority of the team, will join Oura and remain based in Helsinki, Hale said.

“I’ve made about 65 acquisitions in my life and there hasn’t been one where I haven’t thought, ‘Wow this is really good technology,’” Hale said. “This is one where there’s some transformation that’s possible here.”

About Doublepoint

Doublepoint Technologies Oy is an innovative tech startup based in Helsinki, Finland. They specialize in cutting-edge gesture recognition and touchless human-computer interaction.

Here is a quick overview of what they do:

• Core Technology: They develop advanced software that uses the built-in sensors of standard smartwatches to detect micro-gestures (such as tapping your index finger and thumb together).
• Flagship Product: Their most well-known product is the WowMouse app. It magically transforms Wear OS smartwatches into Bluetooth mice. This allows users to control other devices simply by moving their arms and pinching their fingers.
• Use Cases: Their technology allows users to seamlessly control AR/VR smart glasses, computers, tablets, and smartphones without needing to touch a screen or hold a physical controller.
• Company Vision: Doublepoint’s goal is to make digital interactions more natural, intuitive, and hands-free by taking advantage of the wearable devices people already own, rather than building new, bulky hardware.

For more information, please visit the Doublepoint Technologies official website: https://www.doublepoint.com/

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