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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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The USB video device class (also USB video class or UVC) is a USB device class that describes devices capable of streaming video like webcams, digital camcorders, transcoders, analog video converters and still-image cameras.
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
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
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 ...
A LifeCam HD-3000 webcam sitting on top of a monitor. The LifeCam is a lineup of webcams from Microsoft for PC users marketed since 2006. Various models and series of webcams are designed for either laptops or desktops.