My answer to the problem of how to connect further between humans, how to provide the next step from hardware to shared experience, is lucid dream facilitated telepathy.
Lucidity is normally used to mean clarity, be it in prose or thought.
When applied to dreams, the term has come to mean being conscious while dreaming and being largely able to control one's own actions in a dream. This state is well worth experiencing and one of the most astonishingly integrated and enjoyable states of mind imaginable. It is also, with a few exceptions of gifted lucid dreamers, annoyingly difficult to do regularly. Dreams are neurochemical states, possibly high in endogenous tryptamines, that seem to facilitate telepathy. Anecdotal as well as scientific evidence supports the notion of dream telepathy.