Establishing a Wi-Fi connection is pretty straightforward on Android, Chrome OS, and Windows, as you just need to have the sender and receiver devices connected to the same Wi-Fi network. However ...

What Wi-Fi Direct means to you One upgrade, on one device, and peer-to-peer connections will abound everywhere on your network, running through that device.

Kind of like an ad hoc wireless network. Though I am not an expert on wifi direct. This would be best served in the networking forum however. A mod will move it.

PC users can disable or remove Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter on Windows 11/10 using any of the methods described in this post.

What is the difference between WiFi Direct and Bluetooth? Wifi and Bluetooth are two completely different technology and use cases. Instead, We can compare Wifi Direct and Bluetooth.