Yeni Bir Yaşam Biçimi: Artırılmış Gerçeklik (AG)

Developments/changes in the field of technology directly or indirectly affect human life. The rapidly developing/changing software and hardware in the field of communication technology is not only determining people’s ways of lives, their interaction with the environment, their individual leisure time activities, but it is also affecting every aspect of human life. The concept of "Augmented Reality" (AR) is being used in parallel with the technological developments in the fields of health, education, aviation, defense, architecture, marketing, publishing, travel, real estate, automotive, museology, advertising, entertainment and digital gaming. Augmented Reality is the paradigm of the reflection of change in technology to a visual product since it creates a new perception of the surrounding by placing computer-generated digital elements such as sound, image, animation and hologram on the environment in real time via smartphones, tablets and virtual reality glasses. With this new enriched environment, objects and phenomena that cannot physically be placed in real environment become virtually perceivable. These perceived environments created by the Augmented Reality are not only being utilized in entertainment domains such as digital games but they are also being used in an array of areas from life-saving medical operations, education of doctors, visualization of a design product or a structure that does not exist in reality, animation of a creature that lived in prehistoric times or simulation of a historic space that no longer exists. With the life styles and technological developments changing in tandem, it is clear that in the future Augmented Reality will offer many environments to people that are hard to imagine today. This study aims to present an overview of the concept of Augmented Reality, to examine the recent developments in the field, to evaluate the effects of Augmented Reality on social life and its application areas in terms of digital media.