[Tommy.Brown]

I do not have the answer to the activation question, however I do know what the Vision Assistant does.

From my experience with it I have figured out that:
1) It is as it says it is, a Vision Assistant. You can import a photo, and perform all sorts of processing to the image.
2) It is written in LabView, which means that all of the image processing "methods" that it uses are exactly the same as the robot will use if it were programming in LabView. This means that you can easily calculate threshold vales and such on the computer, and then just apply the changes in code. This further supports number 1.
3) It can stream video from the Axis Camera and upon one's command it will save the frame, so you can perform the vision processing on the actual image that the robot will be receiving.

So far the only reason that I have used it is to hook up a camera to a laptop running the Vision Assistant, stream the video and save the frame. Get new threshold values and settings and then I was easily able to just change some parameters and variables in code with C++.