Weirdly enough, though, when you turn your head back, the VR headset has updated the position of VR bees around the tree, the creeper is closer to you...because the VR world keeps computing state transitions whether or not you look.

At least, the good ones do that. Because that's what we expect from the real world: the neurons go on neuroning and the trees go in treeing whether or not anyone is paying attention.

(I think you have taken interpretations of QM too deeply to heart, and taken the mathematics of QM too shallowly to heart--or perhaps not at all. QM reduces to classical physics in the limit as things get large.)