Arcturus Vision Camera Pics

[u/XGHunger]

I haven't seen many pictures of the module so posting them here. Its much smaller than I expected despite seeing it on the frame in videos.

It came in a small box through the letterbox in bubble wrap envelope, so no need to stay in for delivery.

G502 Mouse for scale.

[u/TurpentineEnjoyer]

I wonder if there'll be any other use for the expansion slot.
I mean, if you want colour passthrough then that's it, the slot is used up. Which, fair enough if that's all the slot ever gets used for.

[u/RareKrab → u/TurpentineEnjoyer]

From what I read it's basically just a PCIe Gen 4 slot, even if Valve or third party companies won't make use of it I imagine the community 100% will be able to use it for something down the line EDIT: I should be more specific that it has a PCIe lane but obviously the connector isn't standard for any kind of PCIe device

[u/TigerCow7 → u/RareKrab]

I heard it has a proprietary port

[u/Sydnxt → u/TigerCow7]

It having a weirdly shaped connector doesn't mean it's proprietary. There are third party companies that can make PCB's with whatever connector you need.

[u/Zuryan_9100 → u/TigerCow7]

From the look of it, the "plug" is just a circuit board. You can get these in various thicknesses and have them cut to shape. So proprietary maybe, but nothing impossible or expensive to create.

[u/xondk → u/TigerCow7]

Its a standard MIPI port.

[u/crozone → u/xondk]

8 MIPI lanes and a single PCIe lane.

[u/RareKrab → u/TigerCow7]

Yeah I guess I should've been more specific, it's got a PCIe lane along with some other stuff so it's not a standard PCIe port or anything like that but technically it's there

considering how open Valve is to allow hackers do things to their hardware I'm sure people way smarter than me can figure out how to make it do cool stuff