Internship Experience at AjnaLens

The experience

My timing couldn’t have been better when I joined as a Unity Developer intern at AjnaLens. The organization was in the midst of developing a better-mixed reality headset and was experimenting with other products on the market. So I got to experience all the latest VR headsets. I don’t know anyone in my class who can boast that they went to their office to play “Beat Saber” multiple times so that “they can better understand the working of the device”.

The project I was given was to create a ‘digital twin’ of a robot and its real environment. This ‘digital twin’ is a complete one-to-one scaled model of the actual scenario in the virtual world. The idea is that one could control the virtual robot, which would be reflected as a change in position of the robot at a remote location. In the process, I got to work on a mini-robot arm. I set a client-server system to transmit the data over the network, facilitating the data transfer required to send the position value to the real robot. The team I worked with couldn’t have been any better. Most of my colleagues were a few years older than me. I did not feel out of place at all. In fact, I would look forward to going to the office to meet up and work with all of them.

As this was a peak work time at the company, they organized events for respite. As luck would have it, a week after I joined, a bowling party was organized. I had a great time at the mall’s bowling alley.

The office organized a yoga session on World Yoga Day, which I skipped as I had an “unfortunate attack of the motions”. The HR saw through my lie but played along. Little did I know what was coming next. He made me confirm that I was free on a Saturday but kept the actual reason a secret. He did make hints of the event being a grand one. I came to the event’s location with great expectations – of a food party or a gaming session on the day. To my surprise, everyone was gathered at what seemed to be a foothill of a hill. To my shock, my HR handed me a potted plant, pointed at the mountain and told me that it would be planted at the top of the hill. I was dragged into going on the trek. At the end of the day, I barely made it home. However, the climb gave a sense of achievement, and the view at the top was breathtaking.

AjnaLens is deeply into spirituality, and I immersed myself in it. I participated in the daily morning bhajan sessions at 9.30 A.M. There were meditation sessions. Every major undertaking was done with the blessings of the divine.

It was a great experience working at AjnaLens. It is a small company, where everyone knows one another intimately, making it one big family. I was happy to be a part of such a wonderful organization.