What would you do if you lost one of your eyes? Filmmaker and self-proclaimed cyborg Rob Spence, who lost his eye in a childhood shooting accident, worked with a team of engineers to turn his prosthetic eye into a camera.

“It wasn’t easy but because it’s so like (science) fiction, engineers had a lot of fun making it,” the Toronoto man told Britain’s Sky News. “I was able to do it without a budget – it was a fun project for these guys.”

Spence’s prosthetic makes him resemble the Terminator. But the camera isn’t connected to his brain, so he doesn’t actually see what is being filmed. Built using an endoscope, the device is a transmitter that sends footage from the prosthetic eye to an external camera. Sky News says the technology that makes this possible is the same as a wireless lapel mic, except instead of transmitting sound, it transmits video.

Spence was commissioned by the makers of to make a documentary about the future of human prosthetics. The video game, which is set in the year 2027, envisions a world in which cyborgs are the status quo. Spence traveled around the world and filmed what he called bionic people using his own bionic eye. He said he found that the fictional technology portrayed in Deus Ex is not that far away.

“People are going to have the option of having superior arms, superior eyes, at some point,” he said. “People say no one would ever cut off their own arm and replace it, but if the technology gets there – and it looks like it will – people will think about it. They might be early adopters.”

Last year, an NYU professor also had a , but it wasn't a prosthetic. A camera implanted in the back of Wafaa Bilal's skull shot an image every 60 seconds, sent them to a Web site, and projected the pictures on a screen at a museum in Doha, Qatar. However due to headaches and discomfort, Bilal was forced to have surgery to remove the camera, but continued to wear it tied to the back of his neck.

Spence's camera isn't as invasive; he can pop the prosthetic in and out as he pleases.

You can watch his full, 12-minute documentary below.