Extreme teams (ETs) work in challenging, high pressured contexts, where poor performance can have severe consequences. These teams must coordinate their skill sets, align their goals, and develop shared awareness, all under stressful conditions. How best to research these teams poses unique challenges as researchers seek to provide applied recommendations while conducting rigorous research to test how teamwork models work in practice. In this article, we identify immersive simulations as one solution to this, outlining their advantages over existing methodologies and suggesting how researchers can best make use of recent advances in technology and analytical techniques when designing simulation studies. We conclude that immersive simulations are key to ensuring ecological validity and empirically reliable research with ETs.

极端团队（ET）在充满挑战的高压环境中工作，绩效不佳可能会造成严重后果。这些团队必须在压力条件下协调自己的技能，调整目标并发展共同的意识。如何最好地研究这些团队提出了独特的挑战，因为研究人员寻求提供实用的建议，同时进行严格的研究以测试团队合作模型在实践中的工作方式。在本文中，我们将沉浸式仿真确定为对此的一种解决方案，概述了沉浸式仿真相对于现有方法的优势，并建议研究人员在设计仿真研究时如何最好地利用技术和分析技术的最新进展。我们得出的结论是，沉浸式仿真对于确保生态有效性和使用ET的经验可靠的研究至关重要。