The Batman headset is made from a strong plastic with a leather-like lining for your face and tightly elasticated head straps. At $69.99, you might consider it a stocking filler for the younger Bat-fan in your family, but the shoddy overall experience letdown by lackluster optics would lead us to recommend better, cheaper alternatives much sooner.

We’ll get to the Batman app in another article but, for now, let’s take a look at the caped crusader’s very own headset. Interestingly, both also come with themed motion controllers and - even better - free VR games based on their respective brands that activate when said controller is connected to your phone.

Both work as you’d expect, supporting a range of Android and iOS phones that slot in front of a pair of lenses with the phone’s gyroscopes allowing you to rotate your head in a virtual world, but not physically move it through space. The electronic entertainment company is releasing two headsets this season, one themed after Batman and another after Jurassic World, both recommended for ages eight and up. If I was a smarter man that I am, then, I might have been the first to get permission from DC to slap a Bat-symbol onto the front of a moderately cheap smartphone-based headset and ship it out in time for the holiday season. Most major VR headset makers might have stamped 13+ age recommendations on their products, but you can bet there are going to be a lot of younger children that still put one on their Christmas lists this year.

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