thank you for keeping the thread on going 
(sorry if this looks weird, just made account so my bad if it looks wrong) i have been reading thoroughly through this thread and one more that i really want you to check out How Long Until We Could Make A Real Sword Art Online (sao) Nerve Gear Type Device (sorry if the link is not there im bad lol) im just 11 but if that looks really cool and after you have read that (thank you if you did) if you think that there would be to little memory space in a small device then this would prove you wrong
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(again i dont know how to use links) but i think that our best bet for scanning and reading the brain would be nanotechnology.
please respond i might not be able to assemble a team but i can give ideas.