For their part, eye experts say an "eye cam" would pose few medical risks.
William Danz, Vlach's ocularist, said he supports the project and looks forward to creating the prosthetic encasement for the new technology.
Dr. Eli Peli, a senior scientist at the Boston-based Schepens Eye Research Institute and professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, also said that the medical risks were minor.
However, he questioned the practicality of the pursuit.
"[Vlach] says that she wants a camera mounted in her prosthesis to compensate for visual field loss. But when you lose an eye, you lose just a little," he said.
So little, he said, that in every country in the world you're allowed to drive with only one eye.
Another limitation Peli raised concerned the shape of camera sensors currently available.
Flat microchips commercially used as light sensors for cameras would distort the picture. Viewers would get a "fish-eye" view, he said, resembling the image seen through door peepholes.
But hope may still exist with a team of engineers in the Midwest that, this summer, published its work on eye-shaped cameras in the journal Nature.
Instead of using a typical flat microchip as a sensor, John Rogers and Yonggang Huang, professors of engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University, respectively, developed a sensor that is a flexible mesh wire of wire-connected light detectors.
"We are the first ones to demonstrate that this is possible. You can pretty much use the camera on any shape you want," Huang told ABCNews.com.
He also said that powering the device would be a significant hurdle. But, Huang continued, because their technology transfers flat electronic components to any curved surface, like the human eye, it could be a perfect fit.
"With our technology this should be very possible," he said.
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