Imo the main addition to that console is that face tracking made the 3d work properly.

That’s a surprisingly narrow definition.

So do you look at something like a Studebaker Commander Coupe and go “well obviously that’s modern”?

People argued about Startrek and posted fanfiction back in the days of ARPANET, literally the earliest incarnation of the modern internet predating Bulletin Boards and relatively affordable Microcomputers.