Has anyone looked into alternatives to the NI Vision stuff? This year I didn't look at the camera stuff too much, mostly because (at least as far as I can see for C++) the restrictions on the Vision library don't allow you to run it on your own computer, which makes creating prototypes and debugging at home (where I have the most free time) rather problematic.
I haven't done any serious research into this, but there are a number of projects that have caught my eye so far: