[m00x]

Not OP, but I'm very familiar with both.

Luxonis is way more powerful and has an Intel VPU (Movidius). It's not really meant to be a standalone platform, so it needs a host board (Linux SBC like the Pi). It takes a lot more power, but it can do 60fps on small Yolo models. Its resolution is a lot higher as well.

ESP32-S3 has a pretty small memory capacity, and doesn't have H264-H265 hardware encoding, so you'll be on low-res, low-fps. It only does MJPEG (AFAIK) streaming, so you'll also have to deal with high latency if you want to send that data somewhere. The big bonus is that it's low-cost and low-power, and you're running it directly on the core without an OS.

This means you can do stuff like sleep the cores until something wakes it up (like a PIR sensor that detects people), and it will start streaming in a second or two.

TL;DR: Luxonis stronk, but needs big batteries or plugged in. ESP32-S3 can run on small batteries or solar.

[moffkalast]

Ngl I really wish Luxonis cameras supported running standalone after being configured once, OpenVino is such a heckin chonker to install and manage.

[MrBuddyCasino]

The ESP32-P4 has hardware accelerators for media-encoding, including H.264. Might want to check it out.

[m00x]

Is it out yet?

I'm desperately waiting for it to be available.

[MrBuddyCasino]

Since they announced it half a year ago I would have expected engineering samples to be available by now, but there is nothing.