[Ninjastahr]

Before you go to the Axis cam, consider the price. I know that when my team broke our Axis cam, a replacement was $200+, while a LifeCam is about $35.

I did notice that our Microsoft LifeCam does stream at a very low framerate, but it definitely doesn't have a two-second delay. Some programming options would be to decrease the quality of the image, decrease the amount of steps taken to process the image, or maybe have two different threads with one having output to the dashboard and the other doing your vision processing.