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A webcam is a video camera which is designed to record or stream to a computer or computer network. They are primarily used in video telephony , live streaming and social media , and security . Webcams can be built-in computer hardware or peripheral devices , and are commonly connected to a device using USB or wireless protocol .
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Webcam; Wright camera; Zenith camera; Zoom-lens reflex camera; The term camera is also used, for devices producing images or image sequences from measurements of the physical world, or when the image formation cannot be described as photographic: Acoustic camera which makes sound visible in three dimensions; Gamma camera
Visual chat rooms add graphics to the chat experience, in either 2D or 3D (employing virtual reality technology). These are characterized by using a graphic representation of the user, an avatar virtual elements such as games (in particular massively multiplayer online games) and educational material most often developed by individual site owners, who in general are simply more advanced users ...
The earliest video cameras were based on the mechanical Nipkow disk and used in experimental broadcasts through the 1910s–1930s. All-electronic designs based on the video camera tube, such as Vladimir Zworykin's Iconoscope and Philo Farnsworth's image dissector, supplanted the Nipkow system by the 1930s.
CAM the Ram, mascot of the athletic teams of Colorado State University; CAM Timișoara, a former football club (1911–1949) based in Timişoara, Romania; Clube Atlético Mineiro, a popular Brazilian football team; Cam ECS-12, a 2014 Nerf Blaster released under the N-Strike Elite series; In climbing, a spring-loaded camming device
Windows Camera is an image and video capture utility included with the most recent versions of Windows and its mobile counterpart. It has been around on Windows-based mobile devices since camera hardware was included on those devices and was introduced on Windows PCs with Windows 8, providing users for the first time a first-party built-in camera that could interact with webcam hardware. [4]
EarthCam, Inc. is a company based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, United States, that provides webcam content, technology and services. Founded in 1996, EarthCam.com is a network of webcameras offering a complete searchable database of views of places around the world.