> We believe the reason why so few people turn around and stay long enough to look behind them is due to stylistic choices made my filmmakers.
I believe the reasons why so few people turn around and stay long enough to look behind them are the same reasons why they don't do so in real life.
Sure, if there are distracting/scary noises behind you you turn around, but otherwise you turn your body and concentrate your attention on something specific. And within that, at the less macro scale you foveate on the specific area of attention (hence their observation about the wider FoV of a headset...which isn't completely well attested IMHO).
So the filmmakers are doing what people do and want.
I believe the reasons why so few people turn around and stay long enough to look behind them are the same reasons why they don't do so in real life.
Sure, if there are distracting/scary noises behind you you turn around, but otherwise you turn your body and concentrate your attention on something specific. And within that, at the less macro scale you foveate on the specific area of attention (hence their observation about the wider FoV of a headset...which isn't completely well attested IMHO).
So the filmmakers are doing what people do and want.