Wireless camera compatible with iChat

Does anyone know of a wireless webcam that works with iChat?
I found a bluetooth one but that has limited range of 10 to 30 feet. It would be nice to have longer range. Would that need to be a wifi webcam? All the ones I find seem to only be used in the context of a web browser rather than an application like iChat.
thanks

Hi,
This is the site we normally point people towards
http://www.mac-compatible-web-cam.com/ (don't allow the redirect)
It tends to list a history of older Cameras down the left with Amazon links to second hand ones.
I did not see any WiFi ones listed there though and only one Bluetooth one.
As the default for a Camera nowadays is essentially a UVC (USB Video Class) compatible camera and these work in Vista upwards and 10.4.9 upwards for Macs the redirect site is here http://www.uvccompatiblewebcams.com/
I did a Google Search for Wifi WebCams
This one for instance would work over your WiFi Network.
The Tech Specs say Windows only though and the output is not a format iChat can "see".
iChat can interpret DV signals from Firewire device (Camera or DV converter).
It can since 10.4.9 "see"/use UVC cameras.
Pre Snow Leopard older (USB 1.1) Cameras that had Specific Mac Drivers (Or worked with third party Drivers) could be got into iChat with iUSBCam (No longer supported in Snow Leopard).
A web browser is going to use Quicktime to access any Video it "sees".
Although iChat does use Quicktime it is limited to the formats I have mentioned above.
This Article from 2004 uses a second Mac with a Firewire external iSight back to a central point and then Evocam and Security Spy to upload pics to a server/Web site.
This one "sort of" imported Video on one iChat computer and streamed that to another when cetain conditions were met (used Status Messages like iTune Remote does).
CamcamX may provide you with a means of getting other Video into iChat.
A Bluetooth Hub may be another options.
Basically I think you will find it difficult to find a Wifi Camera that can get Video into iChat.
The same may be true of Blue Tooth ones as well. Although this one does advertise it will work with iChat.
There are ways of "Converting" video using third party apps that may get the Incoming Video into iChat.
10:20 PM Wednesday; June 9, 2010
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