Recently a helmet was introduced in which programs are controlled by hands. Therefore it is possible
This is extremely vague.
What hardware?
Does it have a public API that home assistant can connect to?
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Assuming this a VR headset, they usually just emulate a mouse the same way a laptop touchpad does.
Does that one bring something new?
Pretty sure they’re taking about the new Apple Vision Pro.
Have you seen the price? And watched videos about it? Those features aren’t without issues. It’s highly unlikely that a fringe technology like that will be supported now. More important things for the HA team to do, I’d guess, than to adapt the UI for the total of 10 people that will buy one and who also runs HA at home.
While they’ve done an incredible job technology-wise, what your expectations are are quite vague.
In fact, OP, buy one when it becomes available and tell us how it works with the current app. Until then, it’s all guesswork.
I would expect the timeline for this to be something like:
- 1 month saving money to buy helmet (per €100 needed)
- 2 weeks waiting for it to arrive
- 6 months getting it to work
- 5 minutes of Wow! (per interested friend)
- 5 years gathering dust on shelf
- 1 month ebay trying to sell
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Yes, this is apple, I just didn’t name it so as not to advertise. But here it is important that the Chinese will soon begin to make fake of such helmet. Probably, you need to make some kind of interface, which, for example, increases when you hover the mouse, in order to better control in the helmet
But what would be a valid use case?
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I think that it will be possible to disassemble the helmet, hang it in the corridor next to the ipad where the Home assistant is installed, and control HA with hands without touching screen when entering the house
If it is the one from Apple, it relies on eye tracking as well as hands, so no. It won’t be of any use hanging by the door. Aside from the waste of expensive screens and money associated with it. And how would the thing know what you are controlling? If it is just the coming home / leave routine you can come a long way with €10 components and no need to learn wild gestures.
Speak of overengineering… I agree.
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That exactly 
And that. 3500 bl…dy bucks 
Anyway, it’ll stay touches and swipes, even in thin air, unless they went further than “Minority Report” 
but after all, home assistant can launch a startup to disassemble and remake Apple equipmentl
Perhaps something like device reviewd on this video (starting 0:45)? Though it is not available anymore nor, as I understand, actively developed…
Anyone remembering XBOX had Kinect, and failed miserably 
Even if they failed, it doesn’t matter. If there is a good user experience, Home Assistant can start a startup where it will buy old kinect and connect them to Esphome.
Rrrright.
I do like sci-fi, mind you 
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