$249 stereo camera: low budget double vision

A $249 stereo camera could have an impact on the next generation of machine vision, autonomous cars, robots and even drones. It makes a mean large-scale scanner, too, that could prove useful in warehouses, shops and more.

The camera comes with a friendly name:

Called Tara, the camera is based on two 1/3 inch MT9V024 Global Shutter CMOS sensors manufactured by OnSemi and can provide stereo vision at 60fps in uncompressed format.
It comes with a Software Development Kit, complete with the source code, so developers can use the camera and develop their own applications to suit their particular requirements. The SDK is based on the OpenCV Image Processing Library, which means that customers can take advantage of the disparity maps that the two lenses generate directly in the SDK, as well as providing separate images.
So the end user can process the information as they see fit and bring the disparity map or the separate images into their own custom software package.
You can sidestep the SDK entirely, too, and take the images direct from the camera using DirectShow for Windows or V4L2 for Linux.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYNafaF4h5U

Stereo cameras have been around for at least a century. But having two images doesn't mean the same thing as having a 3D model you can print.

Me and my friend Jack Daniels can achieve double vision for a lot less than $249...