WiGig. Another loss to Intel

The list of products and technologies that Intel decided to give up this year is multiplying. Now it has been added to the 802.11ad ultra-fast wireless standard (also called WiGig).
Recall that the standard proposed in 2009 proposed to use the 60 GHz frequency for data transmission at speeds up to 7 Gbit / s over distances up to 10 meters. The short range (even at low power consumption) did not allow to effectively use WiGig as a network interface. The most recent WiGig application options were related to wireless multimedia peripherals. The use of WiGig for virtual reality helmets looks promising, for example, such an adapter already exists for HTC Vive.
802.11ad is being developed and promoted by a consortium of one and a half dozen well-known companies, so the “WiGig death,” as announced in a number of sources, has not come at all. But Intel is no longer involved in its development.