Would it be possible for VR to become a possibility?
no im not talking about a screen 1 inch from your face that has panoramic properties
im talking SAO level VR!

Well is it possible? and how would we go about pulling this off

Almost anything is possible, but I say no way. Unless you plant a chip in your brain and some kinky other things. It just seems so complex.

I'm curious about how you would stimulate the feelings in the game, lets say you get hit with a pebble in the game(haha) would there be chemicals released into the brain to stimulate the feeling? that's pretty sketchy so no to that. Hmm what about electrical waves? If you send electrical impulses that would activate parts of the brain responsible for feeling and let the eyes take care of the rest?(you see yourself get hit by the pebble and the NerveGear (placeholdername) sends an impulse to the proper part of the brain and the image you saw would trick your brain?

rift is too overrated, i'd go with vive, or something else that use IR tracking to avoid delays causing by motion sickness.

something like rift+trackIR or similar technology

head mounted displays were real DECADES ago, the only difference is - now they can be small enough and cheap enough to produce massively, and there is a demand for it

on the subject of virtual reality, i'm very positive that messing with surgeries on open brain are not required, as most stuff can be wired on neck