AjnaLens

AjnaLens
Information
Type	Private
Industry	Extended Reality
Founded	2014
Founder	Pankaj Raut, Abhishek Tomar, Abhijit Patil
Headquarters	Thane, Maharashtra, India
Notable Personnel	Pankaj Raut (CEO), Abhishek Tomar (CTO), Abhijit Patil (COO)
Products	Mixed reality headsets, AI smart glasses, training software
Website	https://www.ajnalens.com

AjnaLens is an Indian deep-technology company that designs and manufactures Extended Reality headsets and AI-powered smart glasses for defence, enterprise, and education customers. The company operates under its parent firm, Dimension NXG Private Limited, which was founded in 2014 by three IIT Bombay alumni: Pankaj Raut, Abhishek Tomar, and Abhijit Patil. The company is headquartered in Thane, in the Mumbai metropolitan region of Maharashtra.

AjnaLens is widely described as the maker of India's first locally developed Augmented Reality headset, and its products combine Mixed Reality hardware with the AjnaVidya immersive training platform. Its flagship AjnaXR headset was unveiled at CES 2023, where it was named a CES Innovation Awards honoree.

History

Dimension NXG was founded in 2014 by Pankaj Raut, Abhishek Tomar, and Abhijit Patil, who took on the roles of chief executive officer, chief technology officer, and chief operating officer respectively. The team set out to build an Augmented Reality headset under the AjnaLens brand, and completed its first working prototype in 2017. The startup then ran pilots with companies across the medical, enterprise training, real estate, and defence sectors.

By 2018 the company described itself as the only Indian startup to have created an AR headset, and as only the fourth player globally to do so, alongside Microsoft, Google, and Meta. The early headset offered roughly a 90-degree field of view with voice, gesture, and gaze input, and weighed about 300 grams, well below the weight of Microsoft's first HoloLens. An enterprise launch was targeted for September 2018 at a price near 100,000 Indian rupees (about 1,500 US dollars), with the first batch of 500 units manufactured in India.

Over the following years the company shifted its emphasis toward Mixed Reality and skilling, building the AjnaVidya learning platform alongside its hardware. The work culminated in the AjnaXR headset, which the company presented at CES 2023.

Funding and ownership

AjnaLens has raised capital across several rounds, with much of its early backing tied to India's defence and aerospace ecosystem. In February 2020 the company raised 1.5 million US dollars in a pre-Series A round led by the Maharashtra Defence and Aerospace Venture Fund (managed by IDBI Capital), with participation from a group of high-net-worth investors that included Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma.

The company raised a further 12 crore Indian rupees in a pre-Series A extension reported in early 2022, with participation from LetsVenture and the JITO Angel Network among other angel investors. AjnaLens has said it has filed for more than 15 national and international patents.

In July 2025 the Indian eyewear retailer Lenskart, then preparing for a roughly 1 billion US dollar initial public offering, made a strategic investment in AjnaLens to jointly develop AI-powered smart glasses. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Lenskart said it would pair its frame design and engineering expertise with AjnaLens's Extended Reality technology to build consumer-oriented smart glasses, following Lenskart's December 2024 launch of its Phonic audio glasses.

Technology

AjnaLens positions itself as a vertically integrated original equipment manufacturer that designs and builds its Extended Reality hardware in India, in line with the country's Make in India and Atmanirbhar Bharat policies. Its headsets create a real-time spatial mesh of the user's surroundings and overlay 3D holograms onto the physical world, blending Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality into a single Mixed Reality experience.

The AjnaXR is built around a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 platform and uses eye tracking to lighten the rendering workload, a technique the company pairs with hand tracking and inside-out 6DoF tracking. The company has highlighted that the AjnaXR was among the first headsets to integrate adjustable diopter lenses, letting users with mild vision correction needs use the device without wearing separate glasses. AjnaLens lists Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Unreal Engine among its technology partners.

Hardware is sold alongside AjnaVidya, a cloud-based immersive learning ecosystem offering industry-validated courses across fields such as automotive, healthcare, mining, and airport operations, with features including learner leaderboards linked to hiring partners.

Products

AjnaLens's product line has moved from early tethered-style Augmented Reality headsets to standalone Mixed Reality devices and, more recently, toward consumer AI smart glasses.

Product	Year	Type	Notable specs and notes
AjnaLens (first headset)	2017 (prototype), 2018 (enterprise)	AR / MR headset	India's first locally developed AR headset; ~90-degree field of view; voice, gesture, and gaze input; about 300 g; priced near 100,000 rupees for enterprises
AjnaX	2021	AR / MR headset	Earlier standalone headset in the AjnaLens line, preceding the AjnaXR
AjnaXR SE	2023	Standalone MR headset	Dual 2.1-inch LCDs at 3200x1600 per eye, 90Hz; Snapdragon XR2; 256GB storage; 5,500 mAh battery (~3 hours); priced at 84,999 rupees
AjnaXR Pro	2023	Standalone MR headset	Dual 2.1-inch LCDs at 4560x2280 (5K) per eye; Snapdragon XR2; 256GB storage; 6DoF and eye tracking; about 390 g; priced at 115,499 rupees

The AjnaXR was unveiled at CES 2023 and made commercially available in India through the company's website later that year, with a "Make in India" production push announced in May 2024. Reported pricing for the Pro model has varied across sources, with most listings citing 115,499 rupees.

Market position

AjnaLens focuses on the enterprise, defence, and education markets rather than mass-market consumers, and the AjnaXR is marketed primarily as a skilling and training device. The company has reported deployments with Indian defence organisations including the Indian Army, the Indian Navy, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), and the Ministry of Defence, as well as with large Indian enterprises such as Tata, Larsen & Toubro, Vedanta, and Mahindra. It has also taken part in public skilling initiatives, including the digitisation of industrial training institutes in Karnataka.

The 2025 strategic investment from Lenskart, an eyewear retailer with operations across more than a dozen countries, marked a move toward consumer-facing AI smart glasses and positioned AjnaLens as a hardware and technology partner for that effort.