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Live VLM WebUI

Stream a webcam to a vision-language model and read its analysis live.

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Live VLM WebUI
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Build sheet

Board
Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit
Other parts
camera
AI model or service
Real-time vision-language models via Live VLM WebUI
Difficulty
Beginner

Overview

NVIDIA-AI-IOT web UI for live VLM testing on the affordable Orin Nano Developer Kit—camera in, model out, without writing custom inference glue each time.

How it works

A web UI streams your camera to any VLM backend and shows live analysis and benchmarks, including on a Jetson Orin Nano.

Why it's interesting

Live VLM WebUI streams your webcam to a vision-language model and shows the analysis live, which makes it a quick way to compare models and benchmark hardware. It needs a VLM backend, Ollama, vLLM or a cloud API, and runs on Linux PCs, DGX Spark, Apple Silicon Macs, Windows through WSL2 and Jetson Orin or Thor. The interface opens at https://localhost:8090. Jetson setup has a specific gotcha in the README: it requires JetPack 6.x or 7.0, because JetPack 5.x ships Python 3.8, which is not supported, so use Docker or upgrade. Docker is the recommended route on Jetson, with a script that detects the platform and starts the right container, and there is a kiosk guide for a display that opens the camera demo at login.

Source: github.com/NVIDIA-AI-IOT/live-vlm-webui#readme

Hardware

  • Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit
  • camera

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