Hi Don,

Thanks for coming to the communities with your concerns about getting webcam to work with Lync.

According to your description,you have not been able to get them to work with lync to to a video call.This issue can be caused following reasons.
1.Network latency
2.Video or audio driver configuration
3.Video or audio device configuration issues

Please refer the following link to resolve the issue.

Troubleshooting Audio-Video Connection and Quality in Microsoft Lync Online

Thanks,

Keats Ge