Post by Peter TreiFilm maker has blind eye removed, crafts videocam which fits in the socket...
...and glows Terminator red.
http://eyeborgproject.tv
The earliest use of this trope I can recall are slowglass contacts in Shaw's
'Light of other days'.
They are a staple of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk, such as Vinge's
"Rainbows End", and appear in the TV series "Babylon 5", but in many cases are
implemented as contacts rather than eyeball replacements.
But what works have full eyeball replacements? Note that the wearer can't see
through this device, but only transmit a video signal.
Are you making a rule of this game that you can't
see through your own camera eyes? But in that
case, why have them in your eyes? You could just
wear the Google Glasses.
Or do you mean "not a transparent contact lens that
is somehow also a camera"? Something else - I think
this is something else that does exist, or has -
is a video camera connected to a non-functioning
retina. By electrical stimulation, the owner of
the retina could see a picture - a pretty lousy
picture, like UHF television, but it was there.
And, the last that I heard, the implant was only
a temporary experiment. I think again the camera
was in spectacles... the battery probably in one
of those suitcases on wheels, with a towing handle.
But with wireless charging, it could be built
into an eyeball... if not necessarily the same
eyeball that you project the picture into.
In Pat Cadigan's _Mindplayers_, which I thought was
earlier than 1987, the brain interface enters the
head through the optic nerve channel. Casual users
have probes which slip around past your eyeball
as they go in; professionals use electronic
removable eyes - it's just less trouble.
In _New Mutants Annual #2_ of 1984,
Captain Britain's sister ended up with cyber
eyes which transmitted her whole life to Mojoworld,
in order to show the X-Men's adventure as a
reality TV show. Until then - since she'd been
blinded in a fight with Slaymaster - she'd been
getting by reading the minds of people who could
see. But, again, the eyes also worked for her.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg_%28novel%29>
is the origin in print of the Six Million
Dollar Man; the synopsis leaves me uncertain
whether Steve Austin could see from his own
"bionic" eye at that point. Again, if not,
then why have it... well, maybe it was the prototype
and was supposed to work for him but didn't.
In <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_%28TV_series%29>
the camera was wearable, such as in a ring - see?
That reminds me, I have to read my electric meter -
one of these accessories would be handy to reach
that.