The Virtual Voyeur

For those of you with a little peeping tom in you, or for those of you who just get off on internal shots of people's offices and computer workstations. It's really pretty amazing the variety of booger picking and other general flaccid behaviour that one can glean from a high-stakes chase down the Info superhighway. Come on--- be crazy, be daring, be nosy.

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OfficeCams

• LobbyCam scopes the entrance lobby to SBT's main facility in San Rafael, California.
  
• Check out WebCity, a nice color Dutch Office cam.
  
• Now comes the time on Sprockets when we Cam. Check out Studio 2000, Integrated Publication and Information Systems, Darmstadt, Germany, for a very Germanic view of high energy office antics.
  
• The Warp California's VTV Webcam uses a fisheye lense and image grabber board manipulation to simulate a telerobotic camera. This site even admits that "webcams are a dime a dozen".
  
• A current picture from a camera sitting in Mark Bryant's office (near Bull Creek - a tributary of the Colorado River in Austin, Texas) . Does Mark look a little like Captain Kangaroo?
  
• If you never got enough of Adam Curry on EmptyVee, This is a gif of his home office in New Jersey off of(exit 153) It updates every minute, so you may get to see him fluff his hair.
  
• ChuckCam : What exactly you see depends on how shyChuck is feeling :he usually leaves the camera on, but of course, the lights could be off.
  
• IF you always wanted to be a radio DJ, check out the booth at KCRWWW.
  
• The Astounding Cave-Cam® isn't the Mammoth Caverns, it's yet another computerjock's office, named so because his office doesn't have a window, and he can't show you a nice view of the Golden Gate bridge.
  
• For a European computer geek perspective on internal office cams, check out the guys at Micronet in Milano, Italy.
  
• Spy on Don Berry, (self-proclaimed) Super Computer Specialist here. Another office grab.
  
• These Two Guys at the CICA (Center for Innovative Computer Applications), Bloomington, Indian have the precociousness to call themselves to call themselves celbrities. You can spy on 'em, if you dare.
  
• Spy on Sam (or spy on Jim. He doesn't move much, but he does sing. ) Why do I need an internet hookup to spy on a cardboard image of Captain Kirk?
  
• Kourtney's WebCam is an office cam that's unique only in that he has a nice decorative window that sheds lots of light and that it loads pretty quickly.
  
• A Colored Look in Room F136 is a big-ass (180K) image documenting the antics of Karel and Geert in their Delft NetherlandsApplied Physics Office.
  
• The Flying V Ranch cams Dave Goodwin's office at Saint Michaels' College in Vermont. It's worth it just for the caricature of Dave, which you can compare to the real thing.
  
• The Berkely Systems KitchenCam is the only office kitchen I've ever seen with vido games and a slide. I guess they need the creativity to make all those cool screen savers.
  

  LabCams

• The Fogcam at San Francisco State University. These guys are kind of geeky, but at least they achnowedge it (on camera) and show off.
  
• A current picture as seen from the video camera (IndyCam) on top of cujo.cs.umbc.edu which is located in room 230 ECS, on of the Computer Science Department's Graduate Research Labs. It was pitch black last time I looked.
  
• LabCam lets you peek into the Animate Agent Project's laboratory at the University of Chicago's Computer Science Department. The camera is mounted on a computer-controlled pan-tilt head, which you can operate by clicking in the picture.
  
• Welcome to Portland by way of Buckman School. The image you see is from Room 100 at Buckman School.
  
• The Communication Tech. Lab at Michigan State University is standard labcam fare, but must have a good lowlight camera, cuz you can see stuff, even when it's dark!.
  
• Video Labcam allows you to point and click aim and view "Real-time" Netscape Video. + performance art.
  
• Here's two nice terminals and a big bookshelf at CIPAG labat Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  
• Another computerlab at the University Of Oregon.
  
• Here's the Electronic Classrom at the University of Oslo, Norway. Your chance to check out the students and the teacher. (They leave the lights on at night.)
  
• Here's the COMMA Vision Lab,from Cardiff University, Wales.
  
• Make sure to wear your seatbelt when visiting the University Of Idaho Computer Lab.
  
• Georgia Tech's Animation Lab has a decent selection of "high activity days" that you can view time-lapse MPEG's of. Since it's a ceiling mounted camera, it can end of being a Baldspot-Cam for some of those career students.
  

  Here's a computer labcam from the University of Western Australia.It's the only cam I've found yet from Australia.
  

  The University of Central Florida Office of Instructional Resources'Faculty Multimedia Center Presents: OIR-Cam!
  

  The Caltech, WSCP Lab site offer 3 cams, the ability to preview a "filmstrip" of the last 60 minutes of activities, a nice guest book that will "speak" your entries to the lab inhabitants.
  

  Here's the nervecenter of UT's Network Operation Center, at the Division of Continuing Studies' Information Services Group.
  

  To see a French computer lab, try l'Ecole Supérieure de Mécanique, Marseille, France. This sight allows you to choose the image size and filter options, helpful if the transatlantic link is slow; the site is even helpful enough to tell you if noone is infront of the camera.
  

  The MazeCam at the University of Michigan, Computer Aided Engineering Network is a ceiling cam over a messy office space. The only reason that I can figure out it's called MazeCam is because of the background pattern.
  

  Here's a jump page for 8 cams (7lab + 1office) at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland.
  

  Your tax dollars at work. The Rome Laboratory Labcam is a US Air Force facility in Rome, New York. Also have a Snowball Cam, which has nothing to do with snow or balls. Big room, overhead view, lots of terminals, disengruntled public servants.
  

  Use the LiraCam at the University of Genoa, Laboratory for Integrated Advanced Robotics to explore an Italian lab. Telerobotic with a nice (but slow) interface.
  

  Abode-O-Cams

  If you've never looked through a Japanese peephole, now's your chance. Complete with broken English translations in HTML.
  

  Watch the hacker's decompress in the Lopht Lounge.
  

  Probably the closes thing to real voyeurism, this PoolCam is the real thing. I'm sure know that the ladies know they're on the net, those chairs are always empty. Complete with peeping tom curtain view.
  

  Yet another variation on this theme is the Amazing Waterlily Cam. Live video of a pond, in Portland Oregon, USA. Choose which image you would like to see, camera one, or camera two.!
  

  PetCams

  THE AMAZING FISH CAM is for those of us who always wanted an aquarium, but didn't like messing with all that fish food and couldn't afford AfterDark. Now, there's the continuously refreshing FishCam too.
  

  Hal Cantor's Page includes numerous realtime video and server push animations, including Ren & Stempy, the Cootie Catcher, the Lava Lamp, MaggieCam and TurtleCam. A must see, along with some of the most detailed server statistics I've ever seen. You can even play with his cat (virtually of course.)
  

  The Floater PirahnaCam includes two cameras, an .avi movie of a pirahna feeding frenzy and links to loads of pirahna info.
  

  One of the newest aquatic aditions is EelCam. Groovy tropical colors.
  

  TurtleCam is a close relative of FishCam, although the 3 turtles in this tank seem to be much more active than the fish in FishCam. Good realtime animation under NetScape.
  

  Check out Trendy, the IguanaCam.
  

  The ever-exciting CujoCam. Cujo is a female African Grey Parrot. Cujo is 4 years old and has spent her entire life in a Communications Lab. Because of her awesome mimick abilities, we're confident if we demodulated her squawks, we'd get V.21HDLC frames of fax data, probally a DIS. She occasionally throws in a short burst of DTMF digits just to keep us on our toes. Nice interface which welcomes you (somewhat) personally.
  

  Here's another ParrotCam, featuring Webster the Webmaster (Senegal Parrot), Mississauga, Ontario, Canada This tends to be a higher res image than CujoCam.
  

  KittenCam doesn't really chronicle the antics of WebDog's 2 cats, but more whatever they're watching on TV.
  

  Not to be outdone, here's the Cheyenne Zoo GiraffeCam.
  

  If you ever had or always wanted an ant farm, Steve's Ant Farm is for you. Put yer NEtscape blink goggles on, though.
  

  Welcome to Dupree's IguanaCam,l probably the only iguana with his own home page.
  

  Here, Kitty!! Talk to a cat, although I dont think the GIF is live.
  

  Check out quicktime video and photos of prehistoric Triops shrimp. These 90's sea monkeys get bigger every day!!
  

  Only very moderately exciting is this live fast action shot of a Chia Petgrowing, brought to you by those net marketeers, Total Kaos.
  

  Bizzaro-Cams

  Check out Clinton Cam for a "live" view on Slick Willy's progress on an important issue. Hilarious.
  

  Interactive Model Railroad, Distributed Systems Department, University of Ulm Germany. I don't even like trains, but the interface here is so cool, that you have to love it.
  

  The SpamCam shows SPAM doing what SPAM does best.
  

  Take a slice out of life. The Visible Human project is pretty gutsy, but mondo cool. I always wanted to know what my insides looked like.
  

  Severe Tire Damage, the first live band on the Internet (and the fourth, and the sixth, and ...) now lets the audience control the camera doing MCast and Rehearsals. They might play at any time, but they promise to play every Wednesday night at 9PM PST. Cool interface that allows you to zoom on your favorite band member.
  

  Hey all you groovy guys and gals! Check out Brian's Lava Lamp!
  

  Not really a cam, but Rob's Talking Machine let's you speak to Rob in his office at Inference, and it even talks back.
  

  Miles's has cable and he's proud. Here are pictures from the last 5 minutes of Berkely TV.
  

  Here's another TV Cam, the Couch Potato Cam. Good if your cable's been shut off.
  

  An Exxon Valdez twist on the TV cam is Live from the Bridge of the USS Horizon.
  

  The University Of Western Australia has a Mercury Project is another telerobot that's only spoken about in the past tense now. However, USC's TeleGarden is even better, with an Adept robot that you can control to water the plants etc. Good interface with guided tour, aerial view.
  

  Not exactly a cam, but a startling virtual rendition, is the Ineractive Volume from Caltech. IT allows you to "journey" through a visible human body or an MRI of a mouse. Bitchin' interface.
  

  A coffee pot in a UK computer lab. Boy, we're hurting, now.
  

  Although the above TrojanCam is rumored to have been the first cam on the net, the Cappuccino Machine in the Basser Department of Computer Science at Sydney University is much trendier (and shinier) although not much more exciting.
  

  Remember the MonkeyCam from Letterman? Well, welcome to the SteveCam!! Apparently, this guy wears some sort of a camera helmet around with a live feed. Neat idea, but I bet he get's his ass kicked a lot.
  

  For those with foot fetishes only, the Footcam grabs realtime images of people's feet. Complete with a gallery. Kind of creepy.
  

  The SmartieCam appears to be related to some addictive candy. The Smarties Fun is over, the image here was the last one taken. Be sure to read the archives of office workers as they slip into glucose comas.
  

  Børre Ludvigsen has a LEGO Camwith pan & tilt interactivity which is also a dummy of a CU-SeeMe reflector.
  

  Biff the Bear's Potty Cam Near Real Time updates of whether Biff is relieving himself or not. Biff loves beer, and in spite of being a BEAR, eats like a HORSE - so uses it quite frequently. I think there are laws against stuff like this in about 23 states.
  

  Welcome to the Internet's view of some of the analog earthquake helicorder drums displayed in the Nevada Seismological Laboratory. If you want to know if an earthquake's coming, watch these dilligently, hitting reload every 60 seconds. I guess if there really was an earthquake, the T1 line would be the first thing to go.
  

  Scott's Alien Cam is some sort of bizarro future time piece. Let me know if you can figure out how to tell time on it.
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  

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