OASIS Devices launches the OASIS 1 smart ring — whisper to type
- Miami startup OASIS Devices launched and opened preorders for its titanium smart ring, OASIS 1, on June 30, 2026, at a preorder price of $289, with the first batch expected to ship around Christmas 2026 in limited quantities.
- The core feature is whisper input: bring the ring close to your mouth, speak in an almost-inaudible breath-level voice, and a built-in noise-canceling microphone feeds it to Wispr Flow's dictation tech, which turns your speech into text in real time.
- The ring also has a capacitive trackpad (with haptic feedback) plus swipe and motion gestures, used to correct errors, navigate, and scroll — integrating voice, touch, and gesture input into a single ring.
- Specs: titanium build, up to 16 hours of battery life on the ring itself, about 9 days with the charging case per the official spec, works with iPhone, Mac, and Vision Pro, with music support for Spotify and Apple Music.
- The company already shipped its first-generation touch-only ring back in December 2025; OASIS 1 is the next-generation product with an added microphone, built around whisper dictation. Founder Ricky Rosa is a solo founder, with a team spread across Miami, Denver, China, and Abu Dhabi.
A small Miami startup wants to build what comes after the keyboard
On June 30, 2026, Miami startup OASIS Devices launched and opened preorders for OASIS 1, a titanium smart ring built around bringing the ring to your mouth and speaking in an almost-silent "whisper" that gets turned into text.
It packs private voice, touch, and gesture input into a single titanium ring. The company's tagline is "Speak private, stay present" — talk to your device privately without breaking your focus on whatever's in front of you.
Founder and CEO Ricky Rosa's view: keyboards, mice, and touchscreens were all designed for "computers stuffed into laptops and phones." But AI is now moving into glasses, robots (he name-checks Tesla's Optimus), and self-driving cars — devices with no keyboard or touchscreen of their own. He sums it up this way: computing is now everywhere, but human intent is still stuck behind a screen. OASIS positions itself as "the first step after the keyboard."
First, what it looks like: this isn't a health-tracking ring
It's built from titanium and comes with a charging case. Its shape looks similar to Oura-style smart rings, but the positioning is different — those rings are built around sleep, heart rate, and body temperature tracking, while OASIS 1 is built for "operating" things.
Founder Rosa drew a clear line: "We're not a health ring, this is an interaction ring." What it's after isn't the health-tracking band on your wrist — it's the job your keyboard and mouse do.
Why voice assistants are always awkward
Voice input is actually fast — faster than typing. But it has one persistent problem: it makes you speak out loud. In an open office, on the subway, or in a meeting room, saying a command out loud to your phone or headset means everyone nearby hears it, and plenty of people simply avoid it for that reason.
That's exactly the problem OASIS is designed around. Since the ring sits on your hand, it's naturally close to your mouth, so the microphone can be brought right up close and picked up at breath-level volume — quiet enough that only a mic held that near can catch it. That keeps the speed of voice input while getting back the privacy of typing.
You have to speak at normal volume, the mic is far from your mouth, and in public everyone nearby hears you — awkward for private content or meetings.
Bring the ring to your mouth and whisper at breath level; only the close-range mic picks it up. In the official demo it quietly "writes" into a document without disturbing anyone nearby.
Whisper (subvocal speech) isn't literal mind-reading with zero sound — it's speech pushed down to a breath-level volume. Like leaning over to whisper something to the person next to you in a meeting, except this time you're whispering to the microphone in your ring.
How three inputs combine into one complete "typing" action
Voice alone can't make typing complete, since AI dictation inevitably makes mistakes and you need a way to fix them on the spot. OASIS's trick isn't just voice — it's pairing voice dictation with a familiar "pointing device," so speaking, correcting, and paging can all happen on one ring.
The whisper is picked up by a noise-canceling microphone and fed into Wispr Flow's AI dictation, which turns it into text in real time inside any app. When it makes a mistake, a capacitive trackpad with haptic feedback lets your fingertip move the cursor and fix it on the spot; swipe and motion gestures handle navigation and scrolling. One complete input action — voice does the "writing," touch does the "fixing," gesture does the "paging."
Each input handles its own job
Click the tabs below to see what voice, touch, and gesture each handle.
Whisper Voice → Text
Bring it to your mouth and whisper; the noise-canceling mic picks it up, and Wispr Flow turns it into text inside your app. This handles the vast majority of the "typing" work — fast and private.
Capacitive Trackpad (with Haptic Feedback)
The trackpad is tiny, and vibration feedback lets your finger sense whether it tapped or where it swiped without needing to look. It's like the light buzz your phone gives when you tap a button — except here the feedback tracks your fingertip's movement on a ring-sized trackpad, specifically for fixing dictation errors, moving the cursor, and navigating the interface.
Swipe & Motion Gestures
The official site also shows swipe and motion gestures for scrolling pages, selecting, and controlling the device — rounding out what voice and touch alone can't do.
Who's Wispr Flow, and why does it matter
Wispr Flow is a company focused on AI voice dictation, responsible for turning the microphone's audio into text in real time. OASIS didn't build this recognition tech itself — it's brought in as a "featured integration," and how well the whisper-input concept holds up depends heavily on this dictation engine's accuracy and latency. Rosa says the next step is deepening the Wispr Flow integration and connecting to more software.
Rosa stresses this isn't about forcing an overnight change to how you work — it's a bridge between "today's keyboard" and "AI that understands intent in the future."
How long it lasts, what it works with
Below are the hard specs from the official site, so you can judge whether this fits your own setup. Battery life figures are the company's own stated values.
| Item | Spec |
|---|---|
| Material | Titanium |
| Microphone | Noise-canceling mic |
| Trackpad | Capacitive, with haptic feedback |
| Compatible devices | iPhone, Mac, Vision Pro; designed to switch across multiple devices |
| Music | Spotify, Apple Music |
| Featured integration | Wispr Flow (voice dictation platform) |
This isn't the company's first ring, and it's not a one-person effort
OASIS 1 isn't a concept dreamed up on a slide deck. The company already shipped its first ring (touch-only) back in December 2025 — OASIS 1 being preordered now builds on that with an added microphone, built around whisper dictation.
An unusual fundraising story
An early investor relationship began on a Texas Instruments (TI) technical forum about wireless charging, which led to a connection with a group of Australian doctors who had long been tinkering with their own smart-ring project. Rosa said: "It's interesting meeting people online."
What's not in hand yet — how much to trust it
Let's put it plainly: what's confirmed is the product's form, its spec sheet, and the company's shipping track record. What's not confirmed is how the real device actually feels in daily use. These uncertainties belong to the product itself, not to this write-up.
This is a preorder, not a shipped product. Order now for $289, and the product won't arrive until around Christmas 2026, with a limited first batch. Preorder demand isn't the same as market validation.
The official demos are marketing videos. The swipe, whisper, motion, and text-editing clips are official demos — real-world feel, recognition accuracy, and latency will only be known once real units are in hand.
How it looks in public is make-or-break. Digital Trends puts it bluntly: muttering quietly at a ring in a crowded office might still draw some strange looks. Whether whisper input can feel as natural and private as typing is the key question this product needs to answer.
Small team, solo founder. This is a very small company, and its ability to manufacture at scale, keep supply flowing, and handle support hasn't been tested at any real volume yet.
After the keyboard, how will people actually talk to machines
Put this launch back into the larger industry question: AI is moving out of screens and into glasses, robots, and cars, but the way people give these AI systems instructions is still stuck on keyboards and mice.
Rosa frames OASIS's goal as building an "operating system for intention," making touch and voice the primary ways people express what they want to machines. A ring worn on the hand that offers both private voice and precise touch is one concrete attempt at answering what human-machine interaction looks like after the keyboard era. It may not be the final answer, but it's aimed squarely at a question the industry keeps circling back to.
Computing is everywhere, but human intent is still trapped behind a screen. Ricky Rosa, founder of OASIS Devices, in a Refresh Miami interview
Typing for your devices: from "type on a keyboard, or shout at a voice assistant" → bring the ring to your mouth and whisper it into text
Miami startup OASIS launches the titanium OASIS 1 ring, packing private voice, touch, and gesture into a single ring — the whole thing in one illustrated page.
↓ Read the whole page · one animated figure inside
A smart ring is just a small wearable on your finger. OASIS 1 isn't mainly about heart-rate tracking — it's about "input": giving commands and typing for your phone, computer, or AR glasses (head-worn augmented-reality glasses). Until now there were only two ways to give a device commands: tap it out on a keyboard, or shout at a voice assistant.
✘ But you have to say it out loud, the mic is far from your mouth, and anyone nearby hears every word
In meetings, on the subway, in an open office, everyone nearby hears a spoken command; it's even more awkward for private content, which is why plenty of people just skip voice entirely.
OASIS 1 built the microphone right into the ring. Since a ring on your hand is naturally close to your mouth, you can bring it right up and whisper at breath level, quiet enough that only the ring can hear it. That keeps voice's speed while getting back typing's privacy.
📣 Speak at normal volume, mic is far away, and in public everyone nearby hears you — awkward for private content or meetings.
🤫 Bring the ring to your mouth and whisper; only the close-range mic hears it — quietly "typing" into a document without disturbing anyone.
But voice alone still doesn't make a complete typing action — AI dictation inevitably mishears things, and you need to fix them on the spot. Here's how the ring's full mechanism actually works ↓
Scenario: XiaoHu is in a meeting in an open office and wants to jot down a note. He doesn't type, and he doesn't speak out loud — he raises the ring to his mouth and whispers. Here's how that turns into text on a screen:
This product hasn't published any "X times faster" performance figures. What people actually care about is money and time, so here are the two numbers that matter.
voice means talking out loud…
only the ring hears it.
gets it wrong?!
someone else's AI, plugged in —
not built by the ring itself.
- × Hasn't shipped yet, not until around Christmas
- × The official demos are marketing videos
- × Muttering quietly might still draw odd looks
the ring is one concrete answer,
maybe not the final one.