Which sentences from “Virtual Reality Gets Real” provide the best textual evidence to support the central idea of the “Engaging All Your Senses” section? Select all that apply.
A. Closely related is the ability to taste what you see. Researchers in Singapore are developing electrodes that, when placed on your tongue, mimic basic tastes, such as sweet, salty, bitter, and sour.
B. Laidlaw is less optimistic—he thinks that creating lifelike haptics will take 100 years—but he agrees that a virtual world may one day be a nearly perfect simulacrum of the real one.
C. Google recently acquired Thrive Audio, a company that specializes in spatial audio—sounds that your ear registers as emanating from a particular place.
D. Already people are developing vision problems and vitamin‑D deficiencies—not to mention obesity and diabetes—because they spend too much time in front of screens.

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Answer:

A). Closely related is the ability to taste what you see. Researchers in Singapore are developing electrodes that, when placed on your tongue, mimic basic tastes, such as sweet, salty, bitter, and sour.

C). Google recently acquired Thrive Audio, a company that specializes in spatial audio—sounds that your ear registers as emanating from a particular place.

Explanation:

'Virtual Reality Gets Real' primarily conveys the idea regarding the rapid and continuous advancements that are taking place in Virtual Reality which is expected to carry on in the future and the consequences associated with it through different sections.

As per the question, the central idea of the section 'Engaging All Your Senses' is most aptly supported by the sentences 'closely...sour' and 'Google place' as it conveys that how virtual reality is able to capture our senses. It describes how 'the 3-dimensional audio can surround you and the development of electrodes make possible the ability to taste what you see' which not only supports but also substantiates the claim of virtual reality engaging our senses. Thus, options A and C are the correct answers.