The Canvas component allows you to select the Canvas Render Mode. There are three render modes: Screen Space-Overlay, Screen Space-Camera, and World Space. The different render modes determine where in the scene the UI elements will be drawn.
One reason for creating multiple canvases is to create canvases with different render modes.
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