Those sound like... broken binoculars? I just tried my pair out right now, and there's probably 95% overlap between the two circles. If you have anything like

Those sound like... broken binoculars? I just tried my pair out right now, and there's probably 95% overlap between the two circles. If you have anything like what is shown in movies, then you don't have depth perception in most of what you see. Binoculars are meant to gave you a single image with depth perception throughout, not two separate images with depth perception only where they overlap.