About Feng Shui AR
Feng Shui AR is an app that maps your home from the front door and reads the layout by the rules of form-school Feng Shui, with a BaZi chart for the people who live there. This page says who makes it, how the guides on this site are written and checked, and how to tell us when something is wrong.
Who makes it
Feng Shui AR is made by ZET Studios, a small independent app studio in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. The same team builds the iPhone, iPad and Android app and writes every guide, problem page and tool on this site. We are software developers who work from the Feng Shui literature. We are not Feng Shui consultants, and nothing is for sale here beyond the app itself.
How the pages are written
Each guide is written from published work on Feng Shui and BaZi, and lists what it draws on in a Sources block at the foot of the page. The works we use most are these:
- Ole Bruun, An Introduction to Feng Shui, Cambridge University Press, 2008
- Michael Paton, Five Classics of Fengshui: Chinese Spiritual Geography in Historical and Environmental Perspective, Brill, 2013
- Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. 4, Part 1: Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1962
- Sarah Rossbach, Feng Shui: The Chinese Art of Placement, Dutton, 1983
- Guo Pu (attributed), 葬書 Zangshu (The Book of Burial), Jin dynasty, 4th century
- Xu Sheng (compiler, after Xu Ziping), 淵海子平 Yuanhai Ziping, Song dynasty
What the tradition holds is written as tradition, in words such as "traditional Feng Shui holds" or "is said to". Where schools disagree, for example the front-door and compass methods of laying out the Bagua, or Eight Mansions and BaZi on which directions suit a person, the page says they disagree instead of picking one. We do not invent statistics, studies, quotes or practitioners.
How the pages are checked
Every page is checked against the app before it is published. If a page says a scan reads something, that rule is in the app's engine. If the app does not read something, the page says so in its "What a scan reads" box. The rules themselves are published on How Feng Shui AR reads a home: the thirteen findings, the measured threshold behind each one, the command-position check for beds and desks, and how the score out of 100 is built.
The free BaZi calculator on this site uses a web version of the app's BaZi engine, tested against 600 charts produced by the app itself; the two agree on every one. When the app changes, the pages change with it.
What we do not promise
Feng Shui and BaZi are traditional interpretive practices, and this site and the app present them as tradition, not as fact or science. Nothing here promises wealth, health, love, luck or better sleep, and nothing here is medical, financial, legal or structural advice. Where a traditional rule also has an ordinary practical reason, such as a clear path in from the front door, the page says so.
Your data
Homes, floor plans and birth details stay on your device, and camera frames are never uploaded. The free version of the app shows ads. The details are in the privacy policy.
Report an error
If something on a page is wrong, or the app does not do what a page says it does, write to [email protected]. A person reads every message, and corrections are made on the page itself. For help with the app, see Support.