0.5 second Delay in the Image Received from SDK

this is the common latency. there is no known solution to reduce latency.

This document has some additional info.

Linux Getting Started

The camera stitches the two spheres internally. as far as I know, there is no option to change the frame processing pipeline to show the spheres like a webcam for each lens and jump pass the time taken for stitching.

You can try and contact RICOH directly.