"Modern VR" has a lineage dating all the way back to the 1950s and has seen progressive advancement (in step with technology) since. No single person invented modern VR, and certainly not someone who wasn't even involved until five-seven years ago that's absurd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality#History

This will no doubt boil down to some warped definition of what the term "modern" means.