Meet Daniel Melville, the man with Adam Jensen’s bionic arm from Deus Ex

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided was one of the major releases of 2016. The Square Enix and Eidos Montreal science fiction game envisioned a future where people augmented themselves with artificial body parts, such as powerful bionic limbs. The main character, Adam Jensen, helped root out a conspiracy against “augs,” or augmented humans, who received discrimination from “naturals.”

The video game raised questions about the ethics of human augmentation and just how far we can and should go when it comes to equipping people with artificial limbs and other improvements to their abilities. But in highlighting the humanity of the “augs,” the game showed empathy for people who need prosthetics to help them in their daily lives. It turns out that the future that Deus Ex designers predicted for 2027 is already here in some ways, with the advent of real-world bionic arms.