A female Australian Defence Force Academy cadet appeared to be looking at the screen while the consensual sex she was having with another cadet was broadcast into a nearby room, a witness has told a Canberra court.
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And one of the defendants, Dylan Deblaquiere, who was watching in another room via Skype, held his hand over his laptop's webcam at the moment her gaze fell on the screen.
Daniel McDonald, 21, and Deblaquiere, 20, are on trial in the ACT Supreme Court on charges of using a carriage service in an offensive manner. McDonald is also charged with committing an act of indecency on a fellow cadet.
McDonald and the female cadet agreed to have sex as part of a ''friends with benefits'' arrangement in his room on the ADFA campus in March 2011. He organised to stream the encounter, via Skype, to other cadets in Deblaquiere's room.
The woman said she did not consent to the sex being broadcast, but the defendants claim she was aware.
The witnesses gave evidence on day three of the trial before the Justice John Nield on Wednesday.
One witness told the court of an awkward moment during the sex when it seemed ''apparent she was observing the laptop. Kind of like making eye contact,'' he said. But he conceded the woman may have looked in the general direction of the laptop and not directly into the webcam.
He said Deblaquiere used his hands to obscure the camera on his computer in response.
The same man said he had taken a screenshot of the sex with his mobile phone and texted the image to McDonald.
McDonald's statement to military investigators, read to the court, said he was reluctant to be part of the plan and was shocked to discover the number of people in the room.
The group agreed to a vow of secrecy about the night's events.
The trial continues on Thursday.
