Looking at the current state of available products and prices, I think you've asked this question a year too soon. Of course, if by web-cam you mean something cheap and widely supported.
Also, it might be inconvenient, and this might prevent such an idea from becoming popular.
Not an Oculus hater, but not a fan anymore.
Still lots of respect for the team-Carmack, Abrash.
Oculus is driven by big corporation principles now. That brings painful effects already, more to come in the future. This is not the Oculus I once cheered for.
This thread has some good information/links to just about every 180/360 camera out there. viewtopic.php?f=33&t=16525 Spring of 2016 seems to be the time when a lot of these cameras are planning to go retail.
Not a Rift fanboi. Not a Vive fanboi. I'm a VR fanboi. Get it straight.
Not all of those cameras are real-time though, and the ones that do offer that are in a much lower resolution "preview" mode. It'd be great to gather a list here of real-time solutions with their respective specs and price.
There are also solutions that involve something like a security camera, where a single VR user is driving the physical angle of the camera. I haven't seen anything that doesn't include a lot of latency though, so that type may never be practical.
http://360.tv/ is coming out in november, supposedly, not sure if it meets "semi-pro" requirements though, and also not sure if it's compatible with VR out of the box...
