# Luxonis OAK 4 FFC: Five-Camera Vision, Pricing and Availability

The modular vision board reduces integration work, with shared camera bandwidth and conflicting shipping information to check before ordering.

By Paras Madan | 2026-10-28


Luxonis opened orders for OAK 4 FFC on October 27. The board connects up to five camera modules and runs depth and AI processing locally, letting robot builders choose camera positions without assembling a separate computing stack for each viewpoint. The Developer Kit is listed at $849.

The practical audience is a team whose robot cannot accommodate a standard enclosed camera. Camera placement becomes part of the mechanical design rather than a compromise imposed by a fixed housing.

## OAK 4 FFC specifications

The [product page](https://www.luxonis.com/oak4-ffc) lists a 70 by 53 mm carrier, 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage. Luxonis advertises 52 total TOPS, but its specification splits that into 48 TOPS INT8 for the AI accelerator and 4 TOPS FP16 for the GPU. That headline should not be read as one uniform inference benchmark.

The Barebone weighs 36 grams. The platform runs Linux-based Luxonis OS with DepthAI pipelines and can act as the main computer for a simpler machine or supply perception results to another host.

## What the camera flexibility does and does not provide

Luxonis's [technical launch post](https://discuss.luxonis.com/d/7072-introducing-oak-4-ffc-build-the-vision-system-your-robot-actually-needs) makes an important distinction: five viewpoints do not automatically produce 360-degree depth or a fused point cloud. Those require overlapping stereo coverage and additional fusion work.

All cameras share the processor's pixel budget. Teams must plan resolution and frame rate together. The board requires V2 camera modules, so older RVC2-era modules are not compatible.

Dynamic Calibration refines alignment using shared scene features. Cameras without an overlapping view retain the position entered by the user. That makes the physical layout a technical decision: adding another viewpoint does not necessarily give the calibration process more shared information.

## Pricing and shipping need a final check

The launch post lists the Developer Kit at $849 and Barebone at $729, including a temporary $200 memory-and-storage surcharge. Cameras cost extra. It says Developer Kits begin shipping in November and Barebone deliveries are planned for Q1 2027.

However, the product page currently labels the kit as shipping now and lists the Barebone at $730. **The official pages do not agree on immediate kit availability.** Confirm the dispatch date and final configuration price before committing a project schedule.

The [Open Robotics announcement](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/luxonis-new-silver-osra-member-and-a-new-product-release-that-you-can-win/59245) also gives November shipping. It confirms the launch's relevance to the robotics developer community, but does not resolve the newer product-page wording.

## The integration boundary is the useful change

For a robot that already has a central computer, dedicated vision processing can make the camera subsystem easier to change without redesigning the rest of the machine. But it still needs a clear contract: what information reaches the host, how old that information is and what happens when one camera stops responding.

Before choosing a board from its TOPS figure, prototype the intended camera layout and measure the complete pipeline. A consistent stream of usable depth and detections is more valuable than unused peak compute.

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