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They cost as little as $10, but we recommend using one of the better-quality models such as the official Raspberry Pi Camera Module V2 which goes for around $25 (we used cheap models for our tests and the low-light performance was not good).

A camera module: Raspberry Pi Camera modules use a ribbon cable to connect to the Pi’s proprietary CSI camera port.

After combing through a lot of resources, including this very helpful thread, I see that there was at one time a way to have a Pi Zero become a literal USB webcam in Windows, but it doesn’t appear to work with recent builds of Raspbian. While there are a few potential ways to get video from your Raspberry Pi to appear on your PC in Skype, Meet, Zoom or other conferencing apps, the only method I’ve found that works is to stream the Pi’s video using mjpg_streamer and then receive it on the Windows (or Linux or macOS) side where another app makes the OS think that the stream is a webcam.