Point Grey announced plug-and-play interoperability between Point Grey's Flea3 USB3 Vision cameras and NI Vision Acquisition Software, Vision Builder for Automated Inspection (AI) and LabVIEW Vision Development Module.

USB3 Vision is a machine vision interface standard designed to enable seamless integration between USB 3.0 cameras, cables and image processing libraries from different vendors. The standard defines a stream and control protocol, which leverages the success of GigE Vision and GenICam by relying on a standard format naming convention (SFNC) to maintain consistency in functionality and attribute naming. Existing GigE Vision users will be able to seamlessly transition to USB3 Vision and vice versa.

Point Grey and National Instruments are founding members of the USB3 Vision Committee and key contributors to the development of this standard. Point Grey started the development effort early by demonstrating a USB 3.0 camera prototype in 2009. Eighteen USB 3.0 camera models have been introduced since. Existing Point Grey customers can download the USB3 Vision supported firmware for the Flea3 FL3-U3-13S2 models directly from Point Grey's website. Support for remaining Flea3 and Grasshopper3 USB 3.0 models will be provided later this year.