often capitalized
: a camera used in transmitting live images over the World Wide Web
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This will allow presenters to step out of frame while the webcams focus on something else, but it can also be used to hide sensitive areas or information and prevent the webcams from panning over to them.
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Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 24 Sep. 2024
And remember when webcams on HP computers failed to track the facial features of a black man but had no trouble with a white woman?
—Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 13 Aug. 2024
In June, the company launched a service allowing customers to create an avatar of themselves using a laptop webcam in as little as 5 minutes.
—Billy Perrigo, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
Her amusement quickly turned into a side project: Tung set up a webcam and started livestreaming the view from her window, adding some chill music as a soundtrack.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2024
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Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 24 Sep. 2024
And remember when webcams on HP computers failed to track the facial features of a black man but had no trouble with a white woman?
—Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 13 Aug. 2024
In June, the company launched a service allowing customers to create an avatar of themselves using a laptop webcam in as little as 5 minutes.
—Billy Perrigo, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
Her amusement quickly turned into a side project: Tung set up a webcam and started livestreaming the view from her window, adding some chill music as a soundtrack.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2024
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webcam
noun
web·cam
ˈweb-ˌkam 
often capitalized
: a camera used in transmitting live images over the World Wide Web
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