With a VR headset, the left image is shown to your left eye, and the right to your right. Intuitively, it should be clear that they aren't cross-eyed, since yo

With a VR headset, the left image is shown to your left eye, and the right to your right. Intuitively, it should be clear that they aren't cross-eyed, since your nose is in the middle of your face. And as someone else said - you're crossing your eyes, when you should perhaps be doing the opposite - looking far into the distance until the images overlap.