Do I need Oak cameras for the library

Jonas363

I know this sounds like a stupid question, but I read that the library Dephtai is open source and I see the mentions of those cameras all over the site, but I couldn't find an instance where it's said that I need one for the library to work. Can anyone please help me?

jakaskerl

Hi Jonas363 ,
The library works by assigning specific tasks in the pipeline to hardware accelerated blocks on the device, which allows for much faster computation and the ability to run multiple devices at once. Without the device, all calculations would run on the host machine, which would be the same as using opencv.
Kind regards,
Jaka

erik

Note: depthai only supports OAK cameras. It could, in theory, support other devices (cameras, host computers), but that's out of the scope of our efforts.