The WiGig Alliance and the VESA display group today said they were working together on developing a wireless DisplayPort standard. Both groups plan to share technology that would allow for “multi-gigabit” bandwidth and display quality as good as a wired DisplayPort connection over the air. The ultra wideband technology was considered good fit due to the sheer headroom to both match the quality of DisplayPort as it moves into the future.
The spec could lead to more straightforward implementations such as wireless docking stations for notebooks. Plus wireless DisplayPort could be used in smartphones, TVs and tablets. Having Wireless DisplayPort in TVs means omputers could directly output video to TVs without having to use a platform-specific wireless format such as Intel’s WiDi (Wireless Display).
