Universities and companies were not prepared to the changes introduced to limit the spread of COVID-19 in Norway. Universities had to switch to online teaching overnight. There is still uncertainty how measures to control the pandemic will keep affecting universities in the short and middle term. Such measures have consequences on how to carry out research that usually relies on students, researcher and volunteers using the equipment and applications. Our group carries out research on virtual/augmented/extended reality (VR/AR/XR) for immersive training and learning. This research often involves user studies. We had established procedures on how to use the equipment, carry out demonstrations and teaching for students, teachers and visitors, develop projects as part of bachelor and master projects and test new applications with volunteers. The measures taken by authorities to control the spread of the pandemic made it difficult or unfeasible to carry out some of those activities. In this paper we describe how our group and XR lab reacted after universities were closed to students’ presence in campus in March 2020. We present our actions to keep research ongoing, our evaluation of some of those actions and discuss how we had to change the way we operate our XR lab in order to continue teaching and research in the near future, under the assumption that restrictions due to the pandemic can be re-implemented at short notice. We propose procedures to run an XR lab in a manner that inspires visitors to feel safe and confident of using the equipment. Our contribution is the proposal of procedures to run an educational XR lab safely and contribute towards the conversation about how to carry out research involving users in XR under pandemic restrictions.

大学和公司没有准备好为限制 COVID-19 在挪威传播而引入的变化。大学不得不在一夜之间转向在线教学。控制疫情的措施将如何在短期和中期继续影响大学仍然存在不确定性。这些措施对如何开展通常依赖于学生、研究人员和志愿者使用设备和应用程序的研究产生了影响。我们小组开展了用于沉浸式培训和学习的虚拟/增强/扩展现实（VR/AR/XR）研究。这项研究通常涉及用户研究。我们已经制定了如何使用设备的程序，为学生、教师和访客进行演示和教学，开发项目作为学士和硕士项目的一部分，并与志愿者一起测试新的应用程序。当局为控制大流行蔓延而采取的措施使得开展其中一些活动变得困难或不可行。在本文中，我们描述了在 2020 年 3 月大学关闭学生进入校园后，我们的团队和 XR 实验室的反应。我们介绍了我们为保持研究持续进行的行动，我们对其中一些行动的评估，并讨论了我们必须如何改变我们运营 XR 实验室的方式是为了在不久的将来继续教学和研究，假设由于大流行导致的限制可以在短时间内重新实施。我们提出了以激发游客对使用设备感到安全和自信的方式运行 XR 实验室的程序。