"webcam" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use the word anytime to refer to a camera that is used for video chatting or to stream live video from a computer. For example, "I use a webcam to keep in touch with my family, even when I'm away."
Selfie – "a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website" – has been named word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries editors, after the frequency of its usage increased by 17,000% over the past 12 months.
Conversations happen on webcam, exposition via Facebook messenger and plot points are revealed on YouTube.
Some of the more vom-worthy (vom: v. & n. informal: (be) sick; vomit) creatures of the digital undergrowth have also made the new edition, including selfie (a photograph taken of oneself, typically with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website); unlike (v.
Seated at another desk in this most chastening of eternal reading rooms would be Mr Tony Blair, perusing the history books of the future, with a live webcam trained on his face to transmit every individual moment of realisation of his own wrongness.
HUANG YIXIN and Wei Wei, two students at the Guangzhou College of Fine Arts, were hanging around their dormitory last summer and decided as one does to turn on their webcam, put on their Houston-Rockets jerseys and lip-synch a few of their favourite songs by the Backstreet Boys.
The hotel room is suffused with an uncertain, half-joking paranoia; early on, when Mr Snowden puts a blanket over his head (to thwart the possible remote activation of his laptop's webcam), it provokes a mix of nervous laughter and derision.
Broadband access is increasing, webcam facilities spreading, phones getting smarter, techniques getting smoother.
It is also leading efforts to nurse the euro-zone's sickly economy back to health.On Friday September 13th Andreas Kluth, The Economist's Berlin correspondent, will be answering readers' questions about the election via webcam, using the Hangouts feature of Google+.
Also, the fact that the Yahoo software allows more than one person to view a webcam stream without necessarily sending a reciprocal stream means that it appears sometimes to be used for broadcasting pornography .But some of the nude images are likely to be non-commercial, and intended to be private; intimate communications, in other words, between couples doing the video equivalent of sexting.
The machine is not up to much for playing games, but then a dedicated games console beats most computers when it comes to games anyway.The Acer has a built-in webcam, which makes it ideal for video-calling services such as Skype.
There is a webcam here on the Polish side so you can see how long the queue might be.Today all borders are marked with shiny signs telling you that you are now entering such and such a country.
