Maybe Alex shouldn't ask why he can see HUD displays, since they are projections on his optic structures, whether the visor is down or not.

"Alex." He can only imagine what it's like: to wake up in this body, no matter how finely engineered it was. "There was extensive, unsurvivable damage. Otherwise Clara wouldn't have agreed to this." Though he wasn't sure if she knew all she was getting into. They rarely did, but the point for her was she'd have her husband, the brain and personality of the man she loved. And that was what mattered.

Wasn't it?