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The future and impact of mixed reality

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There is an enormous hype on everything you might call "immersive technologies" these days, that is virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and the artificial word invented by Microsoft mixed reality (MR). People outside tend to throw it all into one bucket: It's those weird people wearing even more weird things on their heads. And often this odd feeling may already nourish first reactions of rejection. I am not an exception here. For me personally, I find all those VR headsets frightening. I don't want to wear a black box on my head where I can't see the real world anymore. So I tend to shy away from VR generally. Last week I brought myself to wearing my first VR device: A simple DayDream together with a DayDream certified mobile. It was a blast, I really liked it. Still I prefer to see "what's around me" in the real world.  This seems to be so important to me that I don't shy away from wearing the chunky HoloLens - because I can see

The architect is dead. Long live architecture!

As an agile coach I am often confronted with an odd folk named "software architects". Actually I have been one of those guys for a long time myself. I just had an interview where a group of my current company wanted to hire me as a co-architect. Feeling honored on the one hand I still couldn't really explain an annoying feeling on the other hand. Something was disturbing me and I tried to get a grasp on it. I noticed I'm in constant struggle with these architects since I began to breathe agile air. So why is that, what is really behind this sudden resentment towards the job title "architect"?  Is the architect outdated in an agile world? Should we get rid of them? I say "yes" (just to do some shocking).  But does that mean that in an agile world there's no place for architecture? Of course not. That would be silly. Even if we claim that software architecture should be evolving out of the teams and that means along stories or epics it