[vilya]

The subject is a bit misleading: this is a new computer vision library. There is a separate augmented reality library which lives on the same website, but the two don't appear to be connected.

FastCV has the potential to be interesting, but the website is pretty off-putting at the moment. They need to clarify the license, as others have mentioned. It also appears that the SDK might be Windows-only, judging by their installation guide (I didn't want to register, just to find out that was the case). Having to register just to see the release notes is pretty bad too. Hopefully these are just teething problems and will be sorted out in due course.

It's great to see new computer vision resources like this appearing. Although I'm not willing to register for the download at the moment, I have been browsing the API docs a bit and would be very interested to see a comparison between this and OpenCV from someone who's used both.

[apu]

Skimming through the API docs, it seems to be a very small subset of OpenCV at the moment.

However, a lot of vision is how you handle the details (both for speed and for accuracy/performance). Without using it extensively, it's hard to say if this is better.

OpenCV has at least a long history and being battle-tested going for it (despite its warts).