For all intents and purposes, the Hindus particularly have long argued that we live in Maya, which could be translated “virtual reality”.
What if we all squid creatures living in an intelligent soup, taking bets on how quickly we can enter then escape the game? Wake up, you win. The faster you do it, or perhaps the more style you bring to it, the better.
Brain interfaces, though: those are LOST style points. The part that sees will never touch a computer. This is the wrong direction.