DisplayLink and Alereon today announced a reference design for a Wireless USB display adapter to connect a PC to a display without wires.

The reference design will be demonstrated at CES 2008 in January.

According to Wi-Fi Planet's Troy Dreier, enabling a wireless display is far from easy. "There are three steps involved in creating a wireless monitor: the graphics information first needs to be packetized, so that it can be sent over a standard USB connection; then, a wireless USB transmitter picks it up and sends it; and finally, a receiver on the monitor takes in that data and converts it back into graphic pixels," he writes.

Dreier says the adapters should cost between $150 and $250.

"A display connected using this wireless reference design feels and looks to a user exactly like a wired display," says DisplayLink CEO Hamid Farzaneh. "As evidenced by the proliferation of wireless mice and keyboards, the availability of the technology to bring the same freedom to monitors is just what OEMs need to spur explosive growth in this market."

More here from TG Daily ... more here from infoSync World ... and the press release is here.

Photo above is from Wi-Fi Planet.