Sanal Gerçeklik ve Artırılmış Gerçeklik Uygulamalarının Rekreatif Faaliyetlere Yansıması: Dijital Rekreasyon

The magical realistic world of the virtual recreation

“…In the postmodern era, digital culture has dominated people's leisure time (Silk et al, 2016;Valtchanov & Parry, 2017) and developing technology has transformed leisure activities (Lopez-Sintas et al, 2017). This has led to some changes in the recreation phenomenon, as in many areas (Aylan & Aylan, 2020). Accordingly, in today's world, people are frequently exposed to electronic environments and digital applications, and they have started to spend their leisure time using electronic devices such as game consoles, virtual reality glasses, computers, tablets and mobile phones in their daily lives at home or outside the home (Nimrod & Adoni, 2012).…”

“…In this context, many activities such as electronic sports activities, virtual tours, digital games and watching movies on the internet have become a form of leisure for people (Akoğlan Kozak & Özkeroğlu, 2018). This change in the ways of making use of leisure time has led to the transfer of many recreational activities performed in physical areas to the electronic environment (Aylan & Aylan, 2020). Accordingly, people have started to spend most of their time with electronic applications that they find more economical and enjoyable (Özkeroğlu & Akyıldız Munusturlar, 2020).…”

“…The concept of virtual recreation has emerged as individuals participate in and experience electronic leisure activities in their leisure time (Güncan, 2021b). It is seen that the terms "online recreation" (Whitty & McLaughlin, 2007) and "digital recreation" (Aylan & Aylan, 2020) are also used for this concept in the literature. The concept of virtual recreation is a new subject that has been reflected in the literature in recent years and studies have been started on this subject.…”

“…On the other hand, it is seen that an another study investigating the types of virtual recreation is reflected in the literature and the authors introduced a new definition to the concept of virtual recreation in the study. So the authors stated that virtual recreation is the activities that people participate the activities such as doing sports, competition, traveling or sightseeing, reading books, playing games and artistic activities with technologic tools such as computers, smartphones, VR-BOX 3D glasses, game consoles and joysticks for various purposes such as making use of free time, resting, rejuvenating physically and mentally and spending quality time in the virtual environments or on platforms where real environments and virtual applications are combined (Aylan & Aylan, 2020). According to these definitions, virtual recreation affects the participants mentally thanks to the activities created in fictional spaces, takes them away from the real world for a certain period of time and draws them into a virtual experience.…”

“…With the development of the digital technologies and the introduction of the virtual reality technology into daily life, many changes have occurred in the lives of societies (Aylan & Aylan, 2020). With these changes, the perception of time and space that individuals have has completely changed.…”