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FLIR (formerly pointgrey) cameras are really good in my experience and come in many configurations. There's a ROS driver pointgrey_camera_driver that's plug-and-play which will get you up and running in a couple hours.

Obviously they're not in the same price range as the best-selling webcams on Amazon.

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