Garmin CIRQA Confirmed, Smart Ring and Glasses Still Rumours

Garmin's CEO dropped a clear signal on a recent earnings call: the company is actively building new form factors beyond the wrist. CIRQA is the one product closest to certain, with enough leaked context to treat it as confirmed rather than speculated.

CIRQA appears to be a recovery and readiness tracker, likely competing in the space Whoop 4.0 and Oura Ring Gen 4 currently own. Garmin already has the sensor stack and the athlete data pipeline from years of HRV Status, Body Battery, and sleep tracking on watches like the Forerunner 965 and Fenix 8. Packaging that into a dedicated device makes sense if the goal is 24/7 wear without watch fatigue.

The smart ring rumour is circulating, but sources put it in the unlikely category for now. The market is crowded and Garmin would need a strong hardware differentiator to justify entering against Oura and Samsung Galaxy Ring. A ring also strips away GPS and display, two things Garmin's core audience actively pays for.

Smart glasses are the wildcard. Garmin acquired Cameras and optics expertise through previous deals, and the endurance market has a real gap here. Cycling and trail running both benefit from heads-up data without looking at a wrist. Meta Ray-Bans have shown consumer appetite exists, but sport-specific execution is a different engineering problem entirely.

Bottom line: CIRQA is real and worth watching. Everything else is noise until Garmin says otherwise.